Teesta Setalvad

Teesta Setalvad (Gujarat, 9 February 1962) is an Indian journalist, Publisher and human rights defender. ==Life Course[ Edit] == Setalvad studied philosophy at the University of Bombay and began in 1983 with her career as a journalist. She worked for Bombay-editions of The Daily and The Indian Express and then for the magazine Business India.

She is an ardent opponent of nuclear weapons, for lawyer of human rights, women's rights and peace, and takes it up against prejudices. Right from the start of her career she loved deals with socio-political issues and she started focusing on edge groups. She was an active member in the Committee on women in the media by the Bombay Trade Union Union of Journalist. As of the end of the eighties she started focusing mainly on the news coverage of the established media and is vehemently opposed to hate speech.

After the Bharatiya Janata Party had come to power in three Indian States, she came to the conclusion that religious minorities, women and dalits would be a target of terror. Together with a colleague she founded the group then Journalist against Communalism (Journalist against Sectarianism) and Sabrang communications (all colors) on.

In the years 1992 and 1993, after the destruction of the Babri Mosque in Ayodhya, grew her dissatisfaction with the news coverage of the established media and decided she and her colleague and later husbandJaved Anand to come with it's own magazine under the name Communalism Combat.

In addition to their magazine gives them regularly lectures, including on training centres for the police. They also carried out various projects, such as the Education for a Plural India Program. They want to achieve with this project that there is more pluralistic education is given in India.

Setalvad is a Hindu woman with a Muslim man married. For this reason and their work are their lives threatened for years. In 2009 she was sued because they are in her coverage of the riots of Gujarat in 2002 would have exaggerated. ==Recognition[ Edit] == Setalvad was distinguished several times, including in 2003 with the International Nuremberg human rights prize and in 2007 with a Padma Shri. Her magazine Communalism Combat in 2000 was awarded a Prince Claus award.