Name	Nandini Mitra
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Naionality	Hamburg
Date of Birth	Tuesday, February 25,1975
Place of Birth	Hamburg
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One of my professors once labeled me a “semi-nomad.” I guess you could call me that (though I’ve also been called “Mighty Mo,” “Motorcycle Momma” and “Chutki - Hindi for “Little One,” among other things).
I spent the first 18 years of my life as a military brat, moving from air base to air base every few years, before sprouting some roots in Calcutta.
I think it was my early transitory lifestyle that sparked my interest in traveling, learning about people and why they do what they do. Which, naturally, led to journalism.
Since 1997, I’ve reported and written for several publications in India and America. I’ve covered a wide range of topics – from crime and politics in small town America, to larger social issues like hunger and food insecurity in the U.S., tribal land rights in India, and major international events – like Mother Teresa’s death, the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in Manhattan and the war in Iraq. My main area of interest these days is sustainable development, especially in the context of rural India.
I also have extensive editing experience, having spent four years as a news and features copy editor with The Statesman, Calcutta. I even managed to do a little bit of teaching in between – working as visiting faculty at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (one of my several alma maters) in Orissa, India, and as an adjunct professor of Communication for New Rochelle University in the Bronx, NY.
I returned to India in 2006 and am now based in Calcutta, working full time for the New Delhi-based Down to Earth magazine (www.downtoearth.org.in) as their eastern India correspondent.
I live in a largly empty flat with my new husband, Ian, and a young serial-biter cat called Modhusudhan.