12 Facts About Anita Pratap

Anita Pratap won the George Polk award for TV reporting for her television journalism related to the takeover of Kabul by the Taliban.

Anita Pratap has written the book Island of Blood based on Sri Lanka.

Anita Pratap was nominated as the Aam Aadmi Party candidate from Ernakulam, Kerala, for the 2014 Lok Sabha elections.

Anita Pratap's father was employed with a Tata Group enterprise, he was posted at different locations in India taking his family with him.

Anita Pratap then transferred to Bangalore to live with her parents.

Anita Pratap continued her work in Sri Lanka and later in 2003 published her first book Island of Blood about her experiences of living in a terror-stricken areas.

Anita Pratap worked for India Today and then was a correspondent for Time magazine for eight years.

Anita Pratap worked from the Atlanta and the Bangkok bureaus for a short while to get experience.

Anita Pratap then covered news on the Taliban's takeover of Kabul for which she was presented with the George Polk Award.

Anita Pratap's first marriage was to Pratap Chandran, and she has a son Zubin from that relationship, born when she was 22 years old.

Anita Pratap Chandran was a senior reporter at The Indian Express where the two met.

Anita Pratap subsequently divorced Chandran and took custody of her son.