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George Polk Awards
The George Polk Awards in Journalism are a series of American journalism awards presented annually by Long Island University in New York in the United States. A writer for Idea Lab, a group blog hosted on the website of PBS, described the award as "one of only a couple of journalism prizes that means anything".
The awards were established in 1949 in memory of George Polk, a CBS correspondent who was murdered in 1948 while covering the Greek Civil War (1946–49). In 2009, former
, she published her second book "Unsung" in 2007 which told stories of nine ordinary Indian people who served the society.
Career Awards.
- 1997 – George Polk Award
- 1997 – Eminent Indian Award conferred by the Indo-American Society
- 1998 – Chameli Devi Jain Award for "Outstanding Woman Media Person".
- 2010 – "Noble Laureate as Media Citizen" by Karmaveer Puraskaar
- 2013 – Shriratna Global Award
Personal life.
Her first marriage was to Pratap Chandran, and she