Aditi Phadnis is a political writer. She writes columns in newspapers and magazines and has published books on the subject of Indian politics. She is married to the defense commentator Ashok Mehta. Her mother, Urmila Phadnis, was International Affairs Professor at JNU.

Career

Phadnis graduated from the

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from the

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. She was the president of Students' Union for the year 1982–83. She started her career in journalism from 1983 after graduating. Phadnis worked with various newspaper and magazine publishers like ''

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'', ''The Indian Post'' and ''Newstime''. Later she worked for the news magazine ''Sunday''. , since 2000, she has been working with ''

Business Standard ''Business Standard'' is an Indian English-language daily edition newspaper published by Business Standard Private Limited, also available in Hindi. Founded in 1975, the newspaper covers the Indian economy, infrastructure, international busin ...

''. She was a Jefferson Fellow at the

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in the year 2006. She is the winner of the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for the year 2008–2009 in the Political Reporting (Print) category. She shared this award with Pranab Dhal Samanta of ''

The Indian Express ''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932. It is published in Mumbai by the Indian Express Group. In 1999, eight years after the group's founder Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split be ...

''.

Works

* ''Political Profiles of Cabals and Kings'', Business Standard Books, 2009.

References

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