Maya Mirchandani is an award-winning broadcast journalist, Associate Professor of the Practice and the Head of the Department of Media Studies at Ashoka University. She received the New India Foundation book fellowship in 2023 for Fathers, Sons and a Troubled Paradise, a multigenerational biography of the Abdullahs of Kashmir. This book is represented by A Suitable Agency and is going to be published by HarperCollins India.
Before joining the world of academia, she spent twenty-three years at NDTV as a correspondent, anchor and editor covering politics, diplomacy and conflict. She has received the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism twice, as well as the Red Ink Award for Reporting on Human Rights, and the Exchange for Media Broadcast Journalism Award for best International Affairs reporting.
Between 2017 and 2023, Maya also conducted extensive research on issues of extremism, hate speech, and disinformation, chaired the Tackling Insurgent Ideologies conference for three years and published several research papers, journal articles and book chapters as a Senior Fellow at the Delhi-based think tank, Observer Research Foundation.