Anto Akkara

Anto Akkara is a journalist covering South Asia. With a masters in English literature, post graduate diploma in journalism and LL.B from Delhi University, Anto Akkara has been a journalist with international media for over three decades. He has covered extensively hot spots in South Asia: Sri Lankan war, oppression in Myanmar, and birth of democracy and devastating earthquake of 2015 in Nepal. In the process, he has won a dozen national and international media awards including (St.) Titus Brandsma award for journalism in 2013 for his advocacy for Truth & Justice for persecuted Christians of Kandhamal in eastern Odisha state.