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How 'Writing With Fire', now in the running for an Oscar, came about

The film captures the spunky print-to-digital journey of Dalit women-run newspaper Khabar Lahariya

Rintu Thomas, Sashmit Ghosh
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(From left) Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh

Dipanjan Sinha Kolkata
When Sushmit Ghosh and Rintu Thomas attended a team meeting at Khabar Lahariya’s office in Chitrakoot district of Uttar Pradesh in 2016, they witnessed an important editorial discussion. It was a global conversation that all big newsrooms were having at that time: How to move from print to digital, figuring out ways they could adapt to the changing demands of the news consumer. Here the conversation was happening in Bundeli and Hindi among a small team. All of them were Dalit women.

“The collective mood that day was –  this is a huge leap of faith but we will make this