THE LIGHT WITHIN : A DIFFERENT VISION OF LIFE BY SIPRA DAS (HARDCOVER)

Sipra Das a leading Indian photojournalist who explored aspects phases of Indian life, history and politics with an unfailing detail. She with India Today magazine more than two decades, covering major political news, the politicians, and historically important events. She is currently working with daily newspaper, Sakalbela. of Arts in Islamic History from the University of Calcutta, she is an Associate of the Department of Photojournalism of the Royal Photographic Society, UK. Beginning her career during the early 1980s, she first worked with the Anandabazar Patrika group and then with the Aajkaal newspaper in Kolkata. She joined the Press Trust of India (PTI) in 1987. She developed the PTI photo service in Kolkata before moving to New Delhi to take charge of the news agency’s national photo coverage. Amid the hurly burly of news photography that has seen her travel to trouble spots and disaster zones in various parts of India in search of images of historic worth, she found time to document the lives of the visually challenged all across the country. She has been shooting photographs for this book for well over a decade.