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Maya Mirchandani is an award-winning broadcast journalist based in New Delhi, India. She is an Associate Professor of the Practice and the Head of the Department, of Media Studies at Ashoka University, Sonipat, Haryana. Maya also researches issues of radicalization and Countering Violent Extremism, Hate Speech, and Disinformation as a Senior Fellow at the Observer Research Foundation. Maya writes regularly on Indian foreign policy, politics and human rights. Before joining the world of academia, Maya was Foreign Affairs Editor at NDTV, India’s pioneering broadcast news network. She has won the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism twice, the Red Ink Award for Reporting on Human Rights, and the Exchange for Media Broadcast Journalism Award for best International Affairs reporting. Most recently, Maya is the recipient of the prestigious New India Foundation Book Fellowship for a biographical book that looks at the troubled history of Jammu and Kashmir through the life and journey of Sheikh Abdullah and his family.