Mrinal Pande

Mrinal Pande is the group editor of the Hindi publications of the Hindustan Times house: the daily Hindustan, a monthly digest Kadambini and a magazine for children, Nandan. She has also been the editor of Vama and Saptahik Hindustan, executive editor of Hindustan Dainik, senior editorial adviser to NDTV and has anchored the Hindi news for Doordarshan. The first Indian woman to be the editor-in-chief of a multi-edition national daily newspaper, she is the founder president of the Indian Women’s Press Corps. Mrinal has written extensively in Hindi and English, including novels, short stories and essays, and has written a column for the Hindu. She has previously published Daughter’s Daughter and Devi: Tales of the Goddess in Our Time, and a novel, My Own Witness.