TEHELKA'S CNN HAT-TRICK Sonia Faleiro wins award for story on Vidarbha farmer suicides
For the third year running, a TEHELKA journalist has been honoured with the CNN Young Journalist Award. TEHELKA's Writer-at-Large Sonia Faleiro has been adjudged the runner-up in teh CNN Young Journliast Award this year in the print/online category. Faleiro was picked for her story on farmers' suicides in Vidarbha (Maharashtra) that appeared in TEHELKA September 9, 2009 http://www.tehelka.com/story_main19.asp?filename=Ne090906death_of_CS.asp DEATH OF A SON, GRANDSON, AND ALL OF LIFE'S DREAMS The Kalaskar story is a distressingly familiar one in Vidarbha. Sonia Faleiro and photographer Vibhor Pradeep Chandra visit the region to encounter a tragedy that is a shame on the modern Indian nation [Source: Tehelka, Dec 30, 2006]
