Seema Sirohi
Seema Sirohi is a Washington based correspondent and an authoritative columnist for the Indian weekly Outlook. She was born in New Delhi. She completed her bachelor’s degree in English Literature from St Stephen’s College and joined Jawaharlal Nehru University for a master’s in Sociology. She went on to study journalism at the University of Kansas, Lawrence, and returned to India to pursue a career. While she was at Associated Press, New Delhi she covered some major stories including Indira Gandhi’s assassination, the Bhopal gas leak and India’s intervention in Sri Lanka.
She moved to Washington in 1998 and joined Inter Press Service for a year where she wrote about US policy towards Asia and Africa. She became the Washington correspondent for The Telegraph in 1989, writing political stories, analytical pieces and tracking the difficult relationship between India and the United States for eight years. She returned to India for three years and researched her book Sita’s Curse, Story of Dowry Victims.
In the first book of its kind, Seema Sirohi gives voice to six dowry victims and retraces their lives, without the abstraction of theory. She also shows how, if the victims tried to bring their tormentors to justice, they faced a backlash from the male-dominated establishment.
Ms. Sirohi lives with her husband Christopher Sandrolini, a diplomat with the U.S. Foreign Service, and two children, and was outspoken about the American media lapping up all the stories fed to them by government officials during the Iraq war.
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