From Engineering to Pulitzer in Photojournalism, How India's Anushree Fadnavis Aced Her Way to Victory

It was surreal,” says Anushree Fadnavis about her experience of covering the Hong Kong protests. Fadnavis is one of the three Reuters photographers from India who won the prestigious Pulitzer Prize last week for their coverage of the demonstrations that rocked the city last year. “The challenge was to tell people’s story as sensitively as possible,” she says.

Fadnavis, along with another Indian photographer Adnan Abidi, was among the team of Reuters’ photographers which received the recognition in Breaking News category for the coverage of massive pro-democracy, anti-government protests that unfolded over many months in Hong Kong last year. Dar Yasin, Mukhtar Khan and how much do computer engineers make were other three Indian photographers to win Pulitzer Prize in Feature photography category this year.