New Delhi, Delhi, India
1 review$150 - $300 / Day
Request QuoteShubhranshu has worked as South Asia Producer for British Broadcasting Corporation for more than 10 years. He has worked with Le Monde, The Guardian, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, American Broadcasting Corporation, Sky News and helped various news and documentary teams in past 35 years in all over South Asia. He has worked closely with civil society and grassroot organisations and have good contacts there. Shubhranshu has covered almost all the conflicts and major disasters in entire subcontinent in past few decades in most difficult circumstances possible. He was the first to get TV access with foreign militants operating in Indian Kashmir, Naga and ULFA militants operating in Bhutan and Myanmar and Indian Maoists in Central India. Shubhranshu was abducted twice once by Kashmiri militants and at another instance by Indian Maoists and have negotiated his and colleagues safe release after tactful negotiations with abductors. He has written a book on Indian Maoists.
Central India is in the middle of a conflict between Indian Maoist communist guerrillas and security forces from than 50 years. Thousands have died in the conflict and millions continue to face daily harassment with no end in sight. I write a Blog in Times of India the biggest Indian newspaper
Former Indian Prime Minister called Maoists the single biggest internal security threat ever faced but the story was under reported. I took a BBC TV team inside Abujhmad the undeclared capital of Indian Maoists in a first for any International media team in 2004 to make a half an hour film for BBC
Sky TV had no presence in South Asia in 2004 when Tsunami struck. Shubhranshu led a huge team of Sky News in Sri Lanka post Tsunami in next few weeks building and managing everything from zero
Produced for Voice of America
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