Jyoti Yadav is an Indian journalist who has received numerous awards for her ground reports on issues such as unemployment, human rights, gender crimes, politics, and policies framed for commoners in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Haryana. She conducts investigative reporting on the people of India’s hinterlands. She was praised for bringing attention to the problems in Covid-affected areas.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Jyoti Yadav was born on December 17, 1994 in Haryana, India. She grew up in a village in Haryana’s Mahendragarh district.
Jyoti Yadav comes from a low-income family in Mahendragarh, Haryana, India.
Jyoti comes from a farming family. She has a younger brother. Jyoti Yadav claims to come from a low-income family. Through the photograph taken by her father, she describes the ordinary days and lifestyle she led as a child. She paints a picture of the children dressed in school uniforms from the private school where they were enrolled. She has described everything, including a bag whose strap can be seen on her head and was hand stitched by her mother. Through this image, she also distracts the viewers from the fact that she comes from a low-income family.
Throughout her college years, Jyoti says she adapted the techniques of English writers to analyse the condition of women in rural areas.
She tries to incorporate both urban and rural concepts into her reports and writing, according to her.
EDUCATION
She went to a private school 500 metres away from her house. She felt constrained by her village’s patriarchal structure, but she managed to break free and travel to Delhi to further her education. At Daulat Ram College, Delhi University, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Language and Literature/Letters (2011-2014). She was the first person in her family to graduate. She later earned a master’s degree in English Language and Literature/Letters from Delhi University’s Indraprastha College for Women.
PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
Height (approx.): 5′ 6″
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Black
CAREER
Jyoti began working as an intern at ‘The Lallantop’ in July 2016. She spent two years as a full-time Correspondent at ‘ThePrint’ in 2019. She spent 25 days in May 2020 covering the Indian states of UP and Bihar, filing 15 ground reports on migrant workers, quarantine centres, highway deliveries, and so on. According to Jyoti, she spent more than 60 days in April and May of 2021 covering mass cremations, health infrastructure, Covid wards, underreported Covid deaths, and so on during the life-threatening second wave of Covid-19. She began working as a Senior Correspondent at the same organisation in July 2021. Jyoti extensively covered the aftereffects of the second wave of Covid-19 from August 2021 to December 2021. The report focused on mental health, suicides, the gender gap in education, disrupted mid-day meals, and other issues. She was promoted to Principal Correspondent at ‘ThePrint’ in August 2022.
She did on-the-ground reporting in rural areas and small towns to highlight the high cost of human life during the world’s rapid spread of Coronavirus. Jyoti has also written about drugs, women’s empowerment, politics, and other topics in small towns and rural areas of Bihar, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh.
