In a 25-year career, Harinder Baweja has distinguished herself among senior reporters in India by covering the hard beats of national security, insurgency, terrorism, human rights violations and foreign affairs. Several of her stories have impacted national policy and national affairs. In her five years as an editor at Tehelka, she has helped shape the aggressive public interest journalism the weekly is known for. Heading the news and investigations sections of the magazine, she has overseen many of the biggest exposes in the history of Indian journalism, including the revelations into the Gujarat carnage of 2002, the Jessica Lal murder, and Zaheera Sheikh’s false testimony case. Recently she scored an international scoop by entering the headquarters of militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan soon after the Mumbai terror attacks. This was followed up by a crucial investigation into the SIM cards (portable memory chips in cell phones) used by the terrorists in the assault. A rare combination of reporter and editor, Harinder brings great credit to Indian journalism and Tehelka.