Aamir Peerzada is an Indian journalist, documentary filmmaker and an author. He is currently working with the

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, based out of Delhi and Srinagar. He has also worked with

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as a reporter and producer till March 2017. In 2015, he filmed a challenging journey to the top of

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during the April 2015 Nepal earthquake. The documentary '' Operation Everest – Summiteers to Saviours'' was later made using the footage recorded by Peerzada and his team. He has also produced documentary films ''Lighting the Himalayas'' and ''Siachen – Journey to the World's Highest Battlefield''. Peerzada has also been one of the authors fo
The Dark Hour: India Under Lockdowns
an anthology by

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Early life and education

Peerzada was born in 1991 in

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, India. His father was killed by unknown gunmen in 2002. Peerzada did his schooling from Jawaher Navodaya Vidyalaya Baramulla and then joined University of Kashmir for Bachelors in Science. He later studied

Broadcast Journalism Broadcast journalism is the field of news and journals which are broadcast by electronic methods instead of the older methods, such as printed newspapers and posters. It works on radio (via air, cable, and Internet), television (via air, cable, ...

Award and honours

* Ramnath Goenka Award for excellence in Journalism 2015 *

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2016– Excellence in Indian Journalism under Sports category *

2017– Excellence in Indian Journalism under Science and Innovation category On-the-spot Reporting

Recent work

* (2015) Operation Everest – Summiteers to Saviours NDTV * (2016) Lighting The Himalayas NDTV

References

External links

magazine interview

BBC Podcast about What compelled Aamir to become a journalist?

BBC Podcast about Surviving Everest's 2015 earthquake
{{DEFAULTSORT:Peerzada, Aamir Indian male journalists Indian television journalists Journalists from Jammu and Kashmir Kashmiri people Living people 1991 births 20th-century Indian journalists