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Journo Arundhuti

Arundhuti Banerjee is an Indian journalist who has grown up exploring the different culture through dance, music, movie, theatre. She has been travelling various part of the country. Born and brought up in Kolkata (India), she has done her Bachelors degree in Philosophy from Rabindra Bharati University(one of the iconic university named after Rabindranath Tagore, the first Asian Noble Prize recipient, 1913). Continuing her study, Arundhuti finished her post graduation in Mass Communication from Punjab Technical University.

As a child, thanks to sensible parenting, Arundhuti developed her musical knowledge and did Bachelors in Music(Sangeet Prabhakar) from Prayag Sangeet Samiti, Allahabad. Interestingly it was the same time when she nurtured her sense of visual art through painting, photography along with practising Bharatnatyam(Indian Classical Dance).

After contributing in various local magazine in Kolkata while studying; with an opportunity of internship programme for television channel CNN IBN, Arundhuti moved to Delhi(2009), to experience the real/professional journalism. However, during her internship in TV journalism, she realized her true call is not TV but print media. Thus she joined a magazine in Delhi named The Sunday India as a junior reporter.

Since Arundhuti had a natural inclination towards classical dance, music, art/culture, she started contributing on those subjects.

During her days in Delhi, Arundhuti interviewed many celebrities, musicians, performing artists and covered cultural events including Ibsen Theater Festival, Indo-German Urban Mela 2012 and met new generation classical musicians like Ayaan Ali Khan, Abhay Rustum Sopori, band like the Indian Ocean, musical duo Hari & Sukhmani to name few.

As there is a traveller and explorer inside her, after working in Delhi for few years, she shifted to the Nizam city- Hyderabad. She worked for two prominent media house - Jagran Prakashan Ltd and The Hans India (English Daily). She explored Nizami culture there and met some great artists like Late Pandit Vittal Rao (the last court singer of Nizam), Painter Laxman Aeley, Dancer Guru Mangala Bhatt, Dr Anupama Kailasha, Galeej Gurus, Bangalore based rock band Girish and the Chronicle, Swaratma and many theatre personalities like Vinay Verma of Sutradhar and young theatre groups and artists like Rahul Reddy, Riyaz Usman and many more. After a year long of exploring Telugu culture, she packed her bag to the city of dream - Mumbai!

Arundhuti worked for India's first entertainment newspaper Absolute India as a senior reporter in Mumbai. She has interviewed many celebrities from the world of music, theater, entertainment and hospitality industry that includes - Sonu Nigum, Adnan Sami, Shafqut Amanat Ali, Shantanu Moitra, Nagesh Kukunoor, Imtiaz Ali, Vikash Behl, Subhash Ghai, Shahid Kapoor, Ranveer Singh, Shah Rukh Khan, Amir Khan, Salman Khan, A R Rahman, Dr. Palash Sen, to youngsters like Monali Thakur, Shilpa Rao, Ash King, Divya Kumar, Shruti Pathak, Manoj Yadav, Ankit Tiwari, Vasuda Sharma, Nikhil D'Souza, Raghu Dixit, Monica Dogra, Karsh Kale and it continues...

Apart from Indian celebrities, Arundhuti has interviewed many international people and legends like Pandit Birju Maharaj, Rama Vidyanathan, Włodzimierz Staniewski, Nicolai Friedrich, John McLaughlin, drummer Ben Walsh to Christopher Nolan and many more.

She also worked as media consultant of Salaam Bombay Foundation (NGO) on various projects.

Currently Arundhuti is working as a senior correspondent of Mumbai for IANS news agency.