Writing With Fire

Writing With Fire is the story of India’s only newspaper led by Dalit women. This story is seen through the eyes of Meera, Chief Reporter at Khabar Lahariya, who leads the paper’s transition from print to digital news. As Meera contends with the challenges of training semi-literate women in digital technology, she also has to balance her role as a mother and a wife. Making complicated and sometimes difficult choices, Meera blazes a path for Khabar Lahariya’s growth in a news industry dominated by corrupt male journalists in a region known for endemic levels of violence against women. Meera’s protégées – Sunita and Shyamkali – are key secondary characters whose own personal and professional lives paint a canvas of the complex choices women have to keep their own dreams alive, while navigating the social pressures of society. And as the times get more dangerous for journalists across the world, Meera and her team continue to lead the way and break traditions, be it on the frontlines of India’s biggest issues or within the confines of their homes redefining what it means to be powerful.