Neelanshu Shukla’s family wanted him to apply for the civil service after college, a stable and prestigious career in India. But he had other ideas: he was determined to become a journalist, and cover the big stories. He started as an unpaid intern with the Hindi paper Aaj in his hometown, Kanpur, in Uttar Pradesh state in north India for several months. A journalist cousin, Rishi Shukla, encouraged him to go to journalism school in New Delhi. He got his chance with a new TV channel, Republic TV, which assigned him as the correspondent in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

Source: New York Times September 08, 2020 16:07 UTC