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Aarti Betigeri

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Covers:  South Asia, India, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Bangladesh, foreign policy, gender, environment, business, politics, refugees, culture, investigative journalism, architecture, art, design.
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Aarti Betigeri’s Biography

I’m a multi-platform journalist from Australia reporting across print, radio, video and online. I also dabble in commentary and consulting. Currently I write regularly on foreign affairs with a focus on South Asia, where I spent almost a decade as a foreign correspondent. I also write on design and architecture, human rights, business and development, amongst other fields.

I have interviewed the prime minister of Bhutan Tshering Tobgay, India’s former chief economic advisor Kaushik Basu, London Olympic medal-winning boxer Mary Kom, former Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto, and several LTTE leaders throughout the course of my career.

A career highlight was in 2015 when I worked on an investigative documentary for the ABC's flagship Foreign Correspondent program on offshore surrogacy that resulted in one country changing its laws on the issue, and another considering it. Watch here: http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2015/s4260667.htm

Before moving to India in 2009, I spent many years as a television presenter, journalist and producer with Australia’s two government broadcasters, ABC and SBS.