
journalist
Meghna Pant is an independent journalist. She began her career as a TV anchor with Arnab Goswami at Times Now, and went on to work for NDTV Profit in Mumbai and Bloomberg-UTV in New York City, where she reported from the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and NASDAQ during the 2008 financial crisis. She has met and interviewed President Obama, Mukesh Ambani, Sir Richard Branson, Hillary Clinton, Ratan Tata and Shah Rukh Khan, among others. She launched a business magazine in Dubai before returning to India.
She is a regular panelist at prime time news channels like Times Now, NDTV, CNN-IBN and India Today TV, and international channels like DW News (Germany) and CGTN (China).
Pant's articles are regularly published in The Hindustan Times, Firstpost, The Huffington Post, Scroll, Mumbai Mirror, DNA, Vogue, Tehelka, Buzzfeed, Mid-Day, Verve, Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Man's World, Little India, South Asian Times, India Today, DailyO and The Asian Age, among others.
ARTICLES
2019
UNPREGNANT: WHY WE MUST SPEAK ABOUT MISCARRIAGES (MINT)
WHAT FAT SHAMING TELLS US ABOUT WOMEN (HARPER’S BAZAAR)
INDIA’S MOST GENEROUS BILLIONAIRES (VOGUE)
WORLD’S MOST GENEROUS BILLIONAIRES (VOGUE)
30 TIPS TO BECOME A PUBLISHED WRITER (SHETHEPEOPLE)
10 TIPS TO WRITE, PUBLISH AND SELL A SUCCESSFUL BOOK IN INDIA (TCR)
2018
IS BEING A MOTHER A WOMAN’S ONLY IDENTITY (VERVE MAGAZINE)
SABARIMALA: WHY DOES INDIA HATE WOMEN WHO BLEED? (DNA)
#METOOINDIA SHOULD BECOME TOMORROW’S FUTURE, NOT YESTERDAY’S NEWS (OUTLOOK)
LOVE IN THE TIME OF #METOO (DNA)
I AM A FEMINIST BUT I SUPPORT AZIZ ANSARI (FIRSTPOST)
BREAK TABOO OF PUBLIC BREASTFEEDING (FIRSTPOST)
INSTEAD OF #METOO GIRLS SHOULD BE TAUGHT #HOWTO IN 21st CENTURY INDIA (FIRSTPOST)
CALLING ASIFA THE NEW NIRBHAYA SHOWS HOW WE’VE FAILED AS A NATION (FIRSTPOST)
BEYOND NAMING HARASSERS, WOMEN MUST FILE FIR (FIRSTPOST)
#METOO IS COMPLICATED, NOT BLACK OR WHITE (SHETHEPEOPLE)
2017
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (THE HINDUSTAN TIMES)
FROM #METOO TO #HOWTO (FIRSTPOST)
PREGNANCY SHAMING (THE HINDUSTAN TIMES)
NIRBHAYA VERDICT: CELEBRATIONS CAN BE PUT ON HOLD (FIRSTPOST)
RECONSIDER THE 12 PER CENT GST ON SANITARY NAPKINS (VOGUE)
BOOK REVIEW: ‘WHEN I HIT YOU’ BY MEENA KANDASAMY (THE ASIAN AGE)
BOOK REVIEW: ‘THINGS TO LEAVE BEHIND’ BY NAMITA GOKHALE (THE ASIAN AGE)
BOOK REVIEW: ‘THE LOVERS’ BY AMITAVA KUMAR (THE ASIAN AGE)
2015
HINDUTVA’S KILLING HINDUISM (MUMBAI MIRROR)
CONSENT CULTURE IN INDIA (DAILYO)
WHY INDIAN WOMEN WATCH PORN BUT ARE BORED OF IT (SCROLL)
WHY MODI’S APPEAL TO TROLLS IS TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE (SCROLL)
WHAT LEE KUAN YEW'S SINGAPORE TAUGHT ME (THE HUFFINGTON POST)
WHY MAHESH SHARMA SHOULD RESIGN (DAILYO)
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE (SHETHEPEOPLE)
STOP WHINING ABOUT RAPE INDIA (SHETHEPEOPLE)
KEEP WOMEN SAFE (SHETHEPEOPLE)
SAVE YOURSELF FROM RAPE (SHETHEPEOPLE)
ARE MANNEQUINS MAKING US TOO THIN? (SHETHEPEOPLE)
FAT SHAMING A WOMAN’S BODY (SHETHEPEOPLE)
DOES ABORTION MAKE THE WOMAN A CRIMINAL OR VICTIM? (SHETHEPEOPLE)
IS BOLLYWOOD SCARED OF FEMINISM (SHETHEPEOPLE)
GITA LESSONS FOR THE MODERN WOMAN (SHETHEPEOPLE)
MEN: THE FORGOTTEN GENDER (SHETHEPEOPLE)
WHY MARITAL RAPE WILL CONTINUE (SHETHEPEOPLE)
