Kalpana Sharma
{{Short description|Indian journalist and writer}}
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|employer = The Indian Express, The Times of India, and The Hindu
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|years_active = 1972–present
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|awards = 1987 – Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons
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Kalpana Sharma (born 1947) is an Indian journalist, editor, and writer. Currently freelance, she has worked with several Indian dailies, including The Indian Express, The Times of India, and The Hindu, where she was a deputy editor and chief of the Mumbai bureau. In 1987, she received the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons. She has written and edited several books of reportage from India, including Rediscovering Dharavi (2000), which consists of reporting about Dharavi, a large slum in the city of Mumbai, India, and The silence and the storm: narratives of violence against women in India (Aleph 2019).{{Citation needed|date=July 2024}}
Career
Sharma began her career in print journalism in 1972, working with Himmat Weekly, a local publication in Mumbai, where she was editor during the Emergency, and faced censorship of their content by governmental authorities.{{Cite web |author=Scroll Staff |title=Kalpana Sharma will be Scroll.in's new Readers' Editor |url=https://scroll.in/article/902752/veteran-journalist-kalpana-sharma-will-be-scroll-ins-new-readers-editor |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=Scroll.in |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Sharma |first=Kalpana |title='Himmat' during the Emergency: When the Press crawled, some refused to even bend |url=http://scroll.in/article/735844/himmat-during-the-emergency-when-the-press-crawled-some-refused-to-even-bend |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=Scroll.in |language=en-US}} She went on to work at the Indian Express as the editor of their Sunday supplement, Express Magazine, and at The Times of India, where she was a senior assistant editor. She later worked for The Hindu, where, in addition to reporting, she was Deputy Editor, and Chief of their Mumbai bureau.{{Cite news |date=2013-01-26 |title=Kalpana Sharma |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/kalpana-sharma/article4336236.ece |access-date=2022-11-01 |issn=0971-751X}} Currently working independently, her journalism has focused on environmental, developmental and gender issues. She has also been a consulting editor for Economic and Political Weekly, a peer-reviewed social sciences journal in India. In 2018, she became a readers' editor at Scroll.in, a news and reporting website from India, where she took on responsibility for responding to readers' concerns and complaints, replacing C Rammanohar Reddy. She has written a column reporting on gender issues in India titled The Other Half, which was published by The Indian Express from 1985 onwards, and later in The Hindu, until 2016.
Sharma won the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons, a journalism award, in 1987.{{Cite web |title=Sharma Kalpana |url=https://penguin.co.in/book_author/sharma-kalpana/ |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=Penguin Random House India |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |last=Ravindranath |first=Sushila |date=29 April 2012 |title=Does a journalist's gender matter? |url=http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/does-a-journalist-s-gender-matter-/942858/0 |access-date=2022-11-07 |website=Indian Express}} She has been a visiting faculty member at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.{{Cite web |title=Kalpana Sharma |url=https://journalism.berkeley.edu/person/kalpana_sharma/ |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism |language=en-US}}
As an author, Sharma published Rediscovering Dharavi: Stories from Asia’s Largest Slum (Penguin, 2000), which consisted of reporting about Dharavi, a large slum in Mumbai, India.{{Cite web |last=Roell |first=Sophie |date=12 October 2021 |title=The best books on Mumbai recommended by Saumya Roy |url=https://fivebooks.com/best-books/mumbai-saumya-roy/ |website=Five Books}} In 2019, she edited a volume of personal essays of notable women in India who had chosen not to marry, titled Single by Choice (Women Unlimited).{{Cite news |last=Balasubramanian |first=Malavika |date=2019-07-17 |title=Marriage? No, thank you: meet the women who are single by choice |language=en-IN |work=The Hindu |url=https://www.thehindu.com/books/single-by-choice-essays-laila-tyabji-bama-kalpana-sharma/article28514321.ece |access-date=2022-11-01 |issn=0971-751X}}{{Cite news |last=Aravind |first=Indulekha |title=There is a big misconception that single women aren't contented: Journalist Kalpana Sharma |work=The Economic Times |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/lifestyle/there-is-a-big-misconception-that-single-women-arent-contented-journalist-kalpana-sharma/articleshow/70308582.cms?from=mdr |access-date=2022-11-01}} It included essays by the author, Bama; sports journalist Sharda Ugra, social worker and designer Laila Tyabji, journalist Freny Maneckshaw, sociologist Sujata Patel, and others.{{Cite web |title=Single by Choice: Happily Unmarried Women! |url=https://womenunlimited.in/single-by-choice-happily-unmarried-women.html |access-date=2022-11-01 |website=womenunlimited.in |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2019-07-23 |title='There is a world of women who can't write their own stories': Kalpana Sharma |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/there-is-a-world-of-women-who-cant-write-their-own-stories-kalpana-sharma-5842927/ |access-date=2022-11-07 |website=The Indian Express |language=en}}
Personal life
Bibliography
- Kalpana Sharma, Missing Half the Story: Journalism as if Women Mattered (Zubaan Books, 2010) {{ISBN|9788189884833}}{{cite web |last1=Sharma |first1=Supriya |title=Telling the Untold review |url=https://www.thebookreviewindia.org/telling-the-untold/ |website=The Book Review Literary Trust |access-date=4 December 2022 |location=New Delhi}}
- Kalpana Sharma, The silence and the storm : narratives of violence against women in India (Aleph Book Company, 2019) {{ISBN|9788194233718}}{{cite web |title=Book Review: The Silence And The Storm By Kalpana Sharma |author=Namrata |url=https://feminisminindia.com/2020/01/20/book-review-silence-storm-kalpana-sharma/ |website=Feminism in India |access-date=4 December 2022 |date=20 January 2020}}
- Kalpana Sharma (editor), Single By Choice (Women Unlimited, 2019) {{ISBN|978-93-85606-22-9}}
- Kalpana Sharma, Rediscovering Dharavi (Penguin India, 2000) {{ISBN|9780141000237}}
- Kalpana Sharma and Ammu Joseph (editors), Whose News? The Media and Women's Issues (Sage Publications, 2006) {{ISBN|9780761934936}}
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Category:21st-century Indian journalists
Category:21st-century Indian women writers
Category:Journalists from Mumbai
Category:Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons winners