Payal Mohanka

Payal Mohanka started her journalism career with the Illustrated Weekly of India. In 1995, she was selected for the prestigious Press Fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge. She then moved to TV18, where she reported for India Business Report telecast weekly on BBC World and CNBC India. In 2002, she made a documentary on Chandernagor titled Little France on the Hooghly and in 2003, she made a documentary on Mother Teresa, From Saint to Sainthood, which was screened at the Nehru Centre in London and telecast on CNN-IBN and Doordarshan International. In 2007, her book In the Shadows: Unknown Craftsmen of Bengal was published. Her article in the British think tank magazine The Round Table titled Religion and Conflict in India: A Sikh Perspective is part of the course work at the South Asia Institute of Harvard University.