Kalyani Shankar is a Delhi-based Indian journalist, well-known in the fields of print, broadcast and electronic media. She began her career with The Indian Express, followed by a long stint at the United News of India. During her career, spanning over more than three decades, she was posted in Washington as a correspondent of The Hindustan Times. She was later the Political Editor of The Hindustan Times. She was a Nuffield Press Fellow at Wolfson College, Cambridge University. She was the Vice President of the Forum of Financial Writers and Vice President of the Press Association of India. She was also founder member and Vice President of the Indian Women Press Corps. Presently, she is a member of the Governing Body of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication and a member of the Library Committee of the India International Centre. Currently, she is a syndicated columnist writing for English and Hindi newspapers. She has a weekly political programme on All India Radio and a programme on Lok Sabha Television as well. She has also authored two other books Gods of Power and India and The United States: Politics of the Sixties.
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