Muzamil Jaleel

Muzamil Jaleel
Born	17.11.1972 Srinagar Kashmir
Occupation	Journalist
Title	Bureau Chief of the Indian Express.
Ethnicity	Kashmiri
Notable credit(s)	In 2009 he won the prestigious Ramnath Goenka awards for reporting from Jammu and Kashmir in print.He was awarded for exposing the sex scandal in the valley through his fearless writings.Sanskriti Award for excellence in Indian Journalism and Literature[1] Kurt Schork Award for International Journalism.[2]

Muzamil Jaleel is the Srinagar bureau chief of the Indian Express. He was a visiting scholar at the University of California Berkeley. On another fellowship, he worked in London for the Guardian, The Observer, and The Times newspapers. From Sex Scandal to Amarnath Land Row in the recent past to major stories over the years, Muzamil is known for his investigative stories and exposes that have shaken up and even brought down governments in the state.

Rewards and recognitions

Muzamil won the Ramnath Goenka Award in 2009 April for his investigative articles on the Sex Scandal in the valley, which exposed high profile nexus between politicians, bureaucrats and flesh traders. Following the investigative articles in the Indian Express, people were out on the streets and there was mass agitation. He received a Sanskriti Award for excellence in Indian journalism and literature,^[3] as well as a Kurt Schork Award for International Journalism from Columbia University.^[4] In 2002, the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) reported that Jaleel had been assaulted by the Indian police in the Kashmir Valley, while on his way home from work^[5]

Recent work

• (2008) "A Kashmiri in America: The Lucky Shade of Brown". dispatches.

References

1. ^ Press Trust of India. "Indian Express journalist Muzamil Jaleel gets Sanskriti Award". Express India. http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=39843. Retrieved 2011-02-20. 
2. ^ "2003 Ceremony". Ksmfund.org. http://www.ksmfund.org/c2005.html. Retrieved 2011-02-20. 
3. ^ Press Trust of India. "Sanskriti Award". Expressindia.com. http://www.expressindia.com/news/fullstory.php?newsid=39843. Retrieved 2011-02-20. 
4. ^ "Kurt Schork 2005". Ksmfund.org. http://www.ksmfund.org/c2005.html. Retrieved 2011-02-20. 
5. ^ "Prominent journalist in Srinagar, Muzamil Jaleel, assaulted by Indian police". Asian Human Rights Commission. 2002-09-05. http://www.ahrchk.net/statements/mainfile.php/2002statement/72/. Retrieved 2009-04-11. 

External links

• Bio on quarterly journal dispatches

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Name	Jaleel, Muzamil
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Date of birth	1972
Place of birth	Srinagar Kashmir
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