Kavita Puri

Kavita Puri
Puri at the 2024 Chiswick Book Festival
EducationSt Catharine's College, Cambridge
OccupationsJournalist, radio broadcaster and author
Notable workPartition Voices: Untold British Stories (2019)

Kavita Puri is a British journalist, radio broadcaster, and author. Her 2019 book, Partition Voices: Untold British Stories, is based on her award-winning BBC Radio 4 documentary series of the same name.

She appeared on the podcast The Literary City with Ramjee Chandran to discuss her book, Partition Voices. In 2024 Kavita Puri presented a BBC Radio 4 series called Three Million about the 1943 Bengal famine.

Biography

Puri studied law at St Catharine's College at the University of Cambridge, graduating in 1995.[1][2]

Puri has worked on the BBC's Newsnight as a political producer, film producer and assistant editor, and as the editor of Our World, a foreign affairs documentary programme.[3] Her 2014 BBC Radio 4 series, Three Pounds in My Pocket,[4] told the stories of South Asians who migrated to post-war Britain.[3] In 2015, Puri was named Journalist of the Year by the Asian Media Awards.[5]

In Partition Voices, a three-part series produced for BBC Radio 4 in 2017, Puri documented the stories of Colonial British and British Asians who lived through the 1947 Partition of India.[6][7] Partition Voices won the Royal Historical Society's Radio and Podcast Award and its overall Public History Prize.[7] In 2019, she published a book, Partition Voices: Untold British Stories, based on the series.[7][8] In Literary Review, John Keay described the book as "the closest thing to a partition memorial currently on offer," and a "heartfelt and beautifully judged book".[8]

Puri has served as a trustee of the Victoria and Albert Museum since 2018 with a second term due to end in July 2026.[3][9]

References

  1. ↑ Hartle, Paul (2010). "St Catharine's at the BBC" (PDF). Catharine Wheel. Summer.
  2. ↑ "Three Pounds in My Pocket: Radio 4 Presenter Kavita Puri's father shares his inspiring story". Radio Times. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  3. 1 2 3 Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (12 July 2018). "Victoria and Albert Museum appointment". GOV.UK. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  4. ↑ "BBC Asian Network - Asian Network Reports, Three Pounds in My Pocket". BBC.
  5. ↑ "Kavita Puri is Journalist of the Year 2015". Asian Media Awards. 2 November 2015. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  6. ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Partition Voices". BBC.
  7. 1 2 3 "'Partition Voices' book review: Indians in Britain relive partition with pain". The New Indian Express. 2 August 2019. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  8. 1 2 Keay, John (2019). "From Lahore to Lancashire". Literary Review. Retrieved 22 February 2020.
  9. ↑ "Kavita Puri has been reappointed to the board of the Victoria & Albert Museum". Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport. 24 March 2022.


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