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Catharsis through the Kali Writes Project

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Priyanka Borpujari has had an eventful and laudable journalistic career. Beginning with a Bachelors of Mass Media in Journalism, she has been a research scholar at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) as a result of being awarded the IWMF (International Women's Media Foundation) Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship (2012-2013) for journalism in human rights and justice. She co-founded the youth magazine Yuvaniya for the Bareli tribe in western Madhya Pradesh, in alliance with the Adharshila Learning Centre. The Asian Age and the Mumbai Mirror are two newspapers that Priyanka has worked for, besides being a guest columnist for The Boston Globe . Reporting human rights violations in Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Assam and Gujarat as an independent journalist since 2009, she has contributed to Al Jazeera , The Hindu , Tehelka , Down To Earth and many more prestigious news publications. Having donned many hats as a journalist, photographer, and researcher, Priyanka founded the Ka