Pratima Puri is India’s first television newsreader on Doordarshan. In 1965, she became the first female news anchor in the history of Indian television. She paved the way for so many aspiring female journalists who wanted to join television. He died in 2007.
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Vidya Rawat was born in Lalpani, Shimla, Himachal Pradesh. She completed her studies at Indraprastha College for Women, Delhi.
Family
Pratima Puri belongs to the Gorkha Family. Gorkhas are considered indigenous soldiers, mainly living in northeast India.
Parents & Siblings
There is not much information about his parents and siblings.
Husband & Son
There is not much information about her husband, but she has a son named Raja Puri.
Career
Newsreader
In 1958, Pratima Puri started her career with the All India Radio station in Shimla. On 15 September 1959, Doordarshan was launched as an experimental broadcast by All India Radio. In 1965, Pratima Puri moved to Delhi, where she became a newsreader, in the first five-minute bulletin broadcast by Doordarshan. She became the first female reporter to read the news on television. In his career as a news anchor, he interviewed Yuri Gagarin, the first man to travel into space. According to some sources, Salma Sultan replaced Pratima Puri in 1967 and became a newsreader on Doordarshan. However, in an interview, Salma Sultan revealed that she was appointed as a newsreader in DD after Gopal Kaul, a popular newsreader at the time, quit Doordarshan as a newsreader, so she was asked to fill in. Later, He started training trial newsreaders at DD.
Pratima Puri (extreme right) during an interview with Yuri Gagarin
Death
He breathed his last on July 29, 2007.
Facts/Trivia
- In a scene in the television series “Rokect Boys” (2022), a character appears as Pratima Puri, briefly.
- He interviewed many famous personalities including Yuri Gagarin, the first man to travel in space.
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