Banjot Kaur

Biography

I have been a journalist for 15 years now covering various development issues. Health, science and pharma has been my major areas. I have written extensively on public health covering it not only from policy making at the highest levels of the country but also hitting ground and going down to the level of villages. I also covered all aspects of Covid-19 pandemic. I have worked with a leading English daily, Times of India, a health and science magazine, Down To Earth, a news agency, ANI, and currently I am working with a non-profit newsroom, The Wire. In my stint as reporter, I have also covered for a short while agriculture, water and sanitation and gender issues. I have been invited as a speaker on various journalist, academic and many civil society forums to speak on the work that I have done. My stories have been reproduced by various publications.