Justine Hardy was born on April 1966 and is a British journalist, author, and integrated trauma therapist who has spent most of her adult life in India.
20 Facts About Justine Hardy
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Justine Hardy has been a journalist in South Asia, including Kashmir, where she established Healing Kashmir to help people overcome the trauma of the Insurgency in Jammu and Kashmir that began in 1989.
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Justine Hardy was born in London, raised in Oxfordshire, and educated in England.
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Justine Hardy has been a residential INSPIRE fellow at Tufts University's Institute of Global Leadership.
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Justine Hardy has reported on South Asia for over 25 years since about 1990.
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Justine Hardy has written much about her experiences in Kashmir, which has been the site of conflict since the 1947 partition between India and Pakistan, which resulted in the first First Kashmir War.
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Justine Hardy has written for an Indian newspaper and contributed to Financial Times, The Times, Vanity Fair, Traveler, and National Review.
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Justine Hardy became a regular contributor to Traveller magazine in 2015.
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Justine Hardy has written about female activists within Islam, peace, and the mental health crisis in Kashmir.
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Justine Hardy was a presenter on Travel TV for four years.
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Justine Hardy has been involved in several BBC programs about India, and was a co-presenter on a BBC series about Eastern philosophy in the West.
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Justine Hardy is on the advisory board of Women's Voices Now, which advocates women's rights through film.
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Justine Hardy wrote The Ochre Border: A Journey through the Tibetan Frontierlands in 1995, which is an account of Justine Hardy's journey to a remote valley on the Indo-Tibetan border in the Himalayas.
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Justine Hardy wrote Bollywood Boy in 2002, which is a study of the Indian film business, Bollywood.
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The Wonder House, Justine Hardy's first novel, is a family chronicle set against the background of the Kashmir conflict.
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Justine Hardy spent time with the Dars in 1997 and much of her experience with the Muslim family over two decades in the city is part of the book.
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Justine Hardy has been involved in several aid projects, including the Kashmir Welfare Trust.
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Justine Hardy directs the Development Research and Action Group, which establishes schools in the Delhi slums.
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Justine Hardy has worked for over two decades with The New Bridge Foundation, which seeks to rehabilitate criminal offenders.
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Justine Hardy brought in therapists and implemented treatment plans that include use of alternative and conventional treatments, including counseling, homeopathic medicine, and several forms of hands-on healing therapies.