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Shalini Singh

@Shalininess

Shalini Singh, a 2018 Nieman Fellow, has worked for the Indian newsmagazine The Week and the national daily, Hindustan Times, based in Delhi. She is a regular contributor to the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) and a founding trustee of CounterMedia Trust, the nonprofit that owns PARI.

Reporting the Untold Stories of Rural India

Reporting the Untold Stories of Rural India

Saud Ur Rehman had been standing in line at the bank for eight hours before he called his wife and cousin, complaining of chest pains. It was the third consecutive…
November 20, 2017
A PARI mentor finds an opportunity to teach—and to learn

A PARI mentor finds an opportunity to teach—and to learn

Storytelling is a two-way street at PARI, with professional journalists mentoring locals with no background in reporting. This summer I mentored a PARI fellow, Stanzin Saldon, a Buddhist woman of…
November 20, 2017