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Manraj Grewal Sharma
Manraj Grewal Sharma is the Resident Editor of The Indian Express at Chandigarh, covering the states of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. Author of a book on Punjab militancy called “Dreams after Darkness”, she was a consulting editor with Asia Pacific Adaptation Network. She has also been a publishing consultant with the Asian Development Bank, Manila, and was the managing editor of “Gender, Technology and Development” , an international peer-reviewed journal of the Asian Institute of Technology, Bangkok, for five years.
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