Shashwat Gupta Ray - Research - Adamas University

Shashwat Gupta Ray

Present Position: Associate Professor (Journalism)

Department of Journalism, School of Media & Communication

E-mail: shashwat1.guptaray@adamasuniversity.ac.in

Education:

Experience:

Adamas University, Kolkata [Associate Professor]

Uncovering India {YouTube channel}

Done video feature life of children around Sundarbans National Park caught between climate change, Covid and Tiger.
Highlighted hardships faced by waste-pickers of Pune due to Covid-lockdown 2.0
Special report on double whammy of social stigma due to HIV and uncertainty caused by Covid-lockdown on HIV+ adolescents.

Gomantak Times [Resident Editor] {Panaji}

As Editor, led my team to successfully produce the online and offline editions during the initial days of Covid lockdown.
Did extensive coverage of lockdown and its impact on people
Extensive reporting was done on hardships faced by tribals of Goa
Gave coverage to the issues of physically and mentally challenged persons in Goa

Sakal Times [Sr Reporter to Asst Editor] {Pune}

Covered 26/11 terror attacks on Mumbai
Handled multiple beats for reporting viz. Science & Tech, Health, Defence, Education and Business
Groomed young reporters and interns
Managed the Bureau
Coordinated with Reporting Bureau, Features, Sports and Desk

Tehelka

Did special feature on Maoist movement in Gadchiroli district of Maharashtra
Exposed the involvement of Hindu rightwing fundamentalists in triggering terror attacks in North Maharashtra
Covered July 11, 2006 Mumbai local train serial blasts

Press Trust of India [Reporter] {Mumbai}

Worked in Economic and General Bureau
Covered Shipping, textile and pharmaceutical industry
In General Bureau covered Income Tax, Entertainment and Economic Offences Wing of Mumbai Police

Accolades and awards received:

Uncovering India YouTube channel:
- Received award from Psychiatric Society of Goa for my video feature on mental health issues faced by HIV+ adolescents in Goa due to Covid lockdown in 2020.
Gomantak Times:
- Best Editor Award for Communal Harmony & National Integration in 2018.
- Two Excellence in Reporting awards from Govt of Goa for Health and Art & culture special stories in 2017.
- Letter of appreciation from Indian Navy for our Covid coverage assistance provided by Goa Naval Area to Goa government in fighting Covid-19 outbreak
- My correspondent won two consecutive Excellence in Reporting awards for Health Rural reporting.
Gomantak Times:
- Won award for excellence in Science Reporting from Govt of Maharashtra in 2015
- Won journalism Environment reporting award in 2014.
- Won award for Science and Defence reporting in 2013.
- Press Trust of India:
- Was given Best Corporate Story award in 2005 by PTI

Work used as reference by researchers in India and abroad
- The Political Economy of Conflict between Indigenous Communities and Dominant Societies: Adivasis, Maoist Insurgents and the State in the Central Indian Tribal Belt: by JJ Kennedy, University College London – School of Public Policy (https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2781722)
- Gangsters or Gandhians? The Political Sociology of the Maoist Insurgency in India by Jonathan Kennedy, Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge

The Secular State and the Geography of Radicalism, by Irfan Ahmad published in the Economic and Political Weekly

India and the Challenge of Terrorism in the Hinterland, Strategic Analysis, 2010 by Kalyanaraman.S, Research Fellow at the Institute of Defence Studies and Analyses, New Delhi. , (https://www.academia.edu/2437179/India_and_the_Challenge_of_Terrorism_in_the_Hinterland)
Surviving Bhopal: Dancing Bodies, Written Texts, and Oral Testimonials of Women in the Wake of an Industrial Disaster, Book by Suroopa Mukherjee