Rana Ayyub

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Rana Ayyub is an Indian journalist and [[writer].

She is the author of the investigative book Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up.

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Career

Rana's career was with Tehelka (lit. A Delhi-based investigative and political news journal called "commotion/uproar" (commotion/uproar). In general and Narendra Modi, Rana has been critical of the BJP. Ayana Ayyub's report sent Amit Shah, a close associate of Narendra Modi, to prison for several months in 2010.

Rana worked as an investigative journalist in Tehelka, and her main task was to carry out the sting operation on which her book Gujarat Files was based. The Tehelka's chief refused to publish any story written by Rana or based on the facts gathered by her at the end of the sting operation. Rana continued to work with Tehelka for many months. Tarun Tejpal, Tehelka's editor-in-chief and a major shareholder, was charged with sexual assault by one of his journalist subordinates in November 2013. Rana Ayyub resigned from Tehelka after protesting the company's handling of the Tejpal case. She now works as a freelancer. In September 2019, the Washington Post promoted her as a contributing writer to the Global Opinions section.

HarperCollins India published an open letter written by Ayyub in October 2020 to protest Actor Gajendra Chauhan's appointment as the Chairman of the Film and Television Institute of India (FTIII), as part of the book Inquilab: A Decade of Protest, which includes speeches, lectures, and letters.

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Awards and recognition

• In October 2011, Rana Ayyub received the Sanskriti award for excellence in journalism.
• The 'Citation of Excellence' was conferred to Rana Ayyub in the 2017 edition of the Global Shining Light Award for her undercover investigation revealing state's top officials’ complicity during the 2002 Gujarat Riots.
• Actress Richa Chadda claimed to have been inspired by Rana Ayyub, who is also her friend, in 2016 film Chalk n Duster, where she plays a journalist.
• In 2018, Ayyub was awarded the Most Resilient Journalist Award by Free Press Unlimited for continuing her work "despite being harassed both online and offline and receiving death threats."
• In February 2020, Ayyub was awarded with McGill Medal for journalistic courage at University of Georgia's Grady College.
• She is the 2020 Voices of Courage and Conscience Awardee from the Muslim Public Affairs Council of America.
• She has also been named by Time magazine among ten global journalists who face maximum threats to their lives. She has been profiled by The New Yorker.
• On 28 June 2022, Ayyub was awarded the International John Aubuchon Award by the National Press Club.