Book review on ‘No nation for women’ at Swami Vivekananda Library on Nov 3

Date :01-Nov-2019

Staff Reporter :

Club Literati is going to organise a book discussion of Priyanka Dubey’s ‘No Nation for Women’ A non-fiction account of sexual violence in India on November 3. The discussion will be organised at Swami Vivekananda Library at 5 pm. No Nation for Women takes a hard, close look at what makes India unsafe for its women– from custodial rapes and honour killings to rapes of minors and trafficking– the author uncovers many unpalatable truths behind what we are familiar with as newspaper headlines only.

Priyanka Dubey travels through large swathes of India, over a period of six years, to uncover the accounts of disenfranchised women who are caught in the grip of patriarchy and violence. Priyanka Dubey works as a bilingual correspondent with The BBC in Delhi. During her decade-long reporting career, her investigative reporting on social justice and human rights has won multiple International and national recognitions. This includes the 2018 Chameli Devi Jain Award for an Outstanding Woman Journalist, the 2015 Knight International Journalism Award, the 2014 Kurt Schork Award in International Journalism, the 2013 Red Ink Award for Excellence in Indian Journalism, 2012 Press Council of India’s Award for Excellence in Investigative Journalism and the 2011 Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Indian Journalism. Her stories were finalists in the 2014 Thomson Foundation Young Journalist from the Developing World Awards and the 2013 German Development Media Awards. Priyanka is also a 3 times Laadli media award winner and a former Chevening fellow. She was born in Bhopal and it is her first book.