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I am Mahima Jain, a multimedia journalist covering the socio-economics of gender, environment and health. I have been in this field for just over a decade, and I enjoy shoe-leather reporting, data and research–particularly the combination of the three to tell interesting stories. I want to keep this brief, so if you are interested in reading some of my work and knowing more about me here’s my website.

During the course of my work, there’s often a lot of material that I read, write and listen to. Some of it ends up in the story, much of it is background research and a lot of it is culled at the editing table. There are also anecdotes and interviews that get left out. I have been mulling about what to do with all that for a while, and I thought–why not, perhaps, put it all in a newsletter or a blog? Hence TK. 

TK in journalism and publishing is an abbreviation for “to come”, often used by editors, reporters and publishers (mostly in the West) to mark something that needs to be decided or to be filled in. Tk was “a printer’s expression meaning material is to come.” No one really knows why journalists and editors use TK and not TC, but one theory is that there are few words in the English language which use the combination TK. 

So, I chose TK as the title of my newsletter because I envision this as a repository of work to come: ideas and thoughts, material and stories, anecdotes and insights. It will have both updates about projects that are upcoming and past work that remains in the margins, waiting to be told. 

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