“You are now free to use your cellphones”

Anubha Bhonsle is an award-winning journalist and author. She has a body of work reporting on politics, conflict and gender. Her award-winning shows, documentaries and pieces have appeared on CNN-News18 (formerly called CNN-IBN), NDTV, The New York Times, Wilson Centre and Women Under Siege. Her book of reportage, “Mother, Where’s My Country?” traces the life in Manipur under the shadow of the gun. As a Fulbright Humphrey Fellow and a 2017-18 ICFJ Knight Fellow, she helped newsrooms amplify coverage of Gender and development issues and helped set up #GenderAnd at Indian Express and #Grit at The Wire.