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Ms. Nupur Basu is an experienced print and television reporter and award winning documentary film maker. Since the last three decades she has worked in both print and television journalism, reporting and filming extensively from different regions in the world like India, UK, Uganda, Switzerland, South Africa, Spain, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Nepal ,Bangladesh and Afghanistan.

Her extensive reporting encompassed the fields of politics, development, gender, child rights, issues on livelihood, hunger, health and environment in print, television and documentary films. Her longest stints in print was with India's leading national daily, Indian Express (1982 to 1991) and in television, with New Delhi Television (NDTV) (from 1994 to 2006) as Senior Editor.

The documentary films made by Ms. Basu include Dry Days In Dobbagunta, (1995), which bagged the award for Excellence in Television at IAWRT Festival at Harare, Zimbabwe, No Country for Young Girls? , Lost Generations, Michael Jackson Comes to Manikganj and Mothers of Mallapuram.

Nupur has been the visiting faculty for the spring term at the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley teaching a course on 'International Reporting : India". At present , Ms.Nupur Basu is an Associate Fellow at the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS) at Bangalore and is on the executive commitee of the Media Foundation, India, on the Board of Trustees of Panos, London and the Board of The International Association of Women in Radio and Television (IAWRT), India Chapter.

SMC-B is honoured to have Ms. Nupur Basu in the discussion panel for “The thin line between sensuality and vulgarity in visual communication”.

Hear her share thoughts with other eminent  Speakers like Ms Aruna C Newton, Ms Srividya, Ms Asha S, and Mr.K Giriprakash.