Raksha Shetty

Raksha Shetty has been a journalist for 8 years, and is now Principal Correspondent in the Mumbai bureau of CNN-IBN. She joined CNN-IBN at the channel's inception as Special Features Correspondent, and has covered major news stories and special reports out of Mumbai and Gujarat, focusing on politics, city, and civic issues. Recently, she has received awards and felicitations from local Mumbai organizations for her coverage of 26/11 terror attack. Prior to CNN-IBN, she has worked at Mumbai Mirror, Mid-Day, and CBS News (NY). She is a post-graduate student from the Emerson College, Boston, and has graduated from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai - though she still calls it Bombay, the city where she was born and raised. She is passionate about literature, especially if it’s Russian. She lives in Mumbai with her family.