Debarati Guha
Senior editor and director of programs at DW, Guha focuses on politics and social structures in South Asia, as well as gender related issues.
@debarati_guhaFor Debarati, personal is political. She loves to tell compelling and exciting stories about people's lives and challenges. For her, these experiences are rooted in their political situations and gender inequality.
Debarati Guha comes from a multiethnic, multilingual family and developed an early interest in different cultures, religions and politics. A Bengali at heart, she had firsthand experience in dealing with the trauma of partition during the liberation war of Bangladesh and witnessed poverty in its crudest form.
She started her journalistic career in 2003 in India and has since covered many South Asian and international political events. Her interviewees include high-ranking South Asian politicians and intellectuals, such as Bangladesh's ex-PM Sheikh Hasina, Indian writer and diplomat Shashi Tharoor, and world-renowned economist Prof. Amartya Sen. Debarati has lived in Germany since 2005.
Debarati Guha is also involved in research and theatrics.