Kasturi Ray

Kasturi Ray has been a journalist for over 28 years with a large body of work in print, broadcast
and digital media. Currently the senior news editor at The New Indian Express, Bhubaneswar, she
was the features editor of the media house for 19 years before moving on to the fast-paced and
ever-growing digital space. She served as the senior editor of English digital platform of Odisha
Television Limited for over three years. An alumnus of the Indian Institute of Mass Communication,
she has also written for Firstpost and The Quint besides serving the Women’s Features Service and
the Asian Age. A SAWM-UNICEF fellow for reporting on development journalism, she is currently
pursuing her doctorate in English literature on the topic of journalists being life narrators from
Utkal University, Bhubaneswar.
She is a visiting faculty at the Birla Global University in Bhubaneswar and has received many awards
and accolades, including the Laadli Media Awards for Gender Sensitivity (East) 2013–14 and Aryaa
Awards for excellence in journalism 2016–17.