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Avantika Sharma (born August 31, 1986) is an Indian journalist originally from Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh.

Life and Career
Sharma graduated from University of Delhi in 2007 with a B.A. (Honors) in Journalism. After that, she went on to pursue Post-Graduate Diploma in Journalism and Mass Communication at Xavier Institute of Communications in Mumbai. She graduated in 2008 and joined the website of a daily newspaper DNA - Daily News & Analysis in Mumbai. Later that year, she left the newspaper and returned to New Delhi to work with The Indian Express newspaper. She joined the Jammu & Kashmir desk of the newspaper. In July 2010, Sharma returned to college to pursue a Master’s degree in Arts Journalism with a focus on fashion writing at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University.

Sharma has interned at Hindustan Times newspaper in New Delhi. At DNA, she also wrote some city-based features for the newspaper and the website.

Highlighted Works

 * "The perfect book to beat the heat" DNA - Daily News & Analysis
 * "Mumbai gets its classical groove on" DNA - Daily News & Analysis