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Kavita Puri is a British journalist, radio broadcaster, and author. Her 2019 book, ''
Partition Voices: Untold British Stories'', is based on her award-winning
BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British national radio station owned and operated by the BBC that replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. It broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history from the BBC' ...
documentary series of the same name.
She appeared on the podcas
The Literary Citywith
Ramjee Chandran
Ramjee Chandran is a journalist and author. Chandran has been the Editor of Explocity a fortnightly magazine since 1998.
According to The Daily Telegraph, ''Explocity'' is partly owned by Rupert Murdoch. He is also the host of the podcastThe Lit ...
to discuss her book, Partition Voices.
Biography
Puri studied law at
St Catharine's College at the
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public collegiate research university in Cambridge, England. Founded in 1209 and granted a royal charter by Henry III in 1231, Cambridge is the world's third oldest surviving university and one of its most pr ...
, graduating in 1995.
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Newsnight
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'' as a political producer, film producer and assistant editor, and as the editor of ''Our World'', a foreign affairs documentary programme.
Her 2014 BBC Radio 4 series, ''Three Pounds in My Pocket'', told the stories of South Asians who migrated to post-war Britain.
In 2015, Puri was named Journalist of the Year by the
Asian Media Awards.
In ''Partition Voices'', a three-part series produced for BBC Radio 4 in 2017, Puri documented the stories of Colonial British and
British Asians
British Asians (also referred to as Asian Britons) are British citizens of Asian descent. They constitute a significant and growing minority of the people living in the United Kingdom, with 6.9% of the population identifying as Asian/Asian Bri ...
who lived through the 1947
Partition of India.
''Partition Voices'' won the
Royal Historical Society
The Royal Historical Society, founded in 1868, is a learned society of the United Kingdom which advances scholarly studies of history.
Origins
The society was founded and received its royal charter in 1868. Until 1872 it was known as the Histori ...
's Radio and Podcast Award and its overall Public History Prize.
In 2019, she published a book, ''
Partition Voices: Untold British Stories'', based on the series.
In ''
Literary Review
''Literary Review'' is a British literary magazine founded in 1979 by Anne Smith, then head of the Department of English at the University of Edinburgh. Its offices are on Lexington Street in Soho. The magazine was edited for fourteen years by v ...
'',
John Keay
John Stanley Melville Keay FRGS is a British historian, journalist, radio presenter and lecturer specialising in popular histories of India, the Far East and China, often with a particular focus on their colonisation and exploration by Europ ...
described the book as "the closest thing to a partition memorial currently on offer," and a "heartfelt and beautifully judged book".
In 2018, then-Prime Minister
Theresa May
Theresa Mary May, Lady May (; née Brasier; born 1 October 1956) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019. She previously served in David Cameron's cabi ...
appointed Puri as a trustee of the
Victoria and Albert Museum
The Victoria and Albert Museum (often abbreviated as the V&A) in London is the world's largest museum of applied arts, decorative arts and design, housing a permanent collection of over 2.27 million objects. It was founded in 1852 and nam ...
for a period of four years.
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Living people
Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge
BBC newsreaders and journalists
British broadcast news analysts
British reporters and correspondents
British Asian writers
Year of birth missing (living people)
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