Rati Agnihotri

Rati Agnihotri is an independent journalist and writer currently based in Dehradun (Uttarakhand). Rati has extensive experience in broadcast journalism, having worked as a Correspondent for Xinhua Media for 8 years. She ... Rati Agnihotri is an independent journalist and writer currently based in Dehradun (Uttarakhand). Rati has extensive experience in broadcast journalism, having worked as a Correspondent for Xinhua Media for 8 years. She has also worked across radio and digital media and was a Fellow with Radio Deutsche Welle in Bonn. Rati regularly contributes articles to various newspapers, journals and magazines. Her articles have been recently published in "Firstpost", "The Sunday Guardian", " Organizer", OpIndia", "Hindupost", "Garhwal Post", "Sanatan Prabhat", etc. Rati writes extensively on issues concerning politics, geopolitics, Hindu Dharma, culture, society, etc. The points of intersection between geopolitics and culture are of special interest to her. A lot of her work explores issues concerning Bharat's civilizational and cultural ethos from a global perspective. She obtained her master’s degree in International Journalism from the University of Leeds, UK and a BA (Hons) English Literature from Miranda House, Delhi University. Rati is also a bilingual poet (English and Hindi) with two collections of English poetry to her credit. Her first poetry collection "The Sunset Sonata" has been published by Sahitya Akademi, India's National Academy of Letters. Her second poetry book "I'd like a bit of the Moon" has been published by Red River. Show more