Explaining religion's role in shaping the world today.
Explaining religion's role in shaping the world today.
Award-Winning Journalist
Kalpana Jain is an award-winning journalist, editor and author whose work explores religion, democracy and public life across the United States and Asia.
Previously, she spent more than two decades at The Times of India, where her reporting on public health and social justice helped change policies. She is the author of Positive Lives and a 2009 Nieman Fellow at Harvard.
"For Kalpana Jain, it is all about the power of voice. An investigative journalist from India—and a former Harvard Nieman Fellow in global health reporting—Jain has devoted her working life to giving voice to the voiceless by delving into social issues too often ignored or dismissed."
"I grew up in Meerut, in Uttar Pradesh, one of the post–Indian independence generation, very idealistic, wanting to bring about change. This was still very much Gandhi's India, and journalism was a perfect vehicle for the activist questioning of Jain's khadi-wearing generation."
"You went after the stories, and felt good about being able to change something in someone's life, even if it was just bringing out her voice."
Harvard Divinity School, Center for the Study of World Religions "Kalpana Jain: Empowering Voices"
Essays and stories on religion and the ways the sacred lives among us — whether we recognize it or not.
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Positive Lives was among the first books in India to document the human impact of HIV/AIDS.
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A forthcoming podcast exploring religion, lived experience and power through conversations and fieldwork.
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Talks and conversations on religion, ethics, journalism, and lived faith across cultures.
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Kalpana speaks on religion, ethics, journalism and lived faith across cultures — drawing on three decades of fieldwork across India, Asia and the United States.
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