Yoshita Singh is an award-winning journalist with over two decades of experience of reporting from the US and India on international relations, foreign policy, United Nations, India-US ties, global trade, politics, business and culture. She is currently the Chief United Nations and New York Correspondent for Press Trust of India (PTI), India’s largest newswire headquartered in New Delhi. Yoshita has reported from New Delhi, Chicago and the Boston area.
Yoshita was awarded the 2019 ‘Apravasi Bharatiya Ratna Puruskar’ by the Uttar Pradesh Government in India for her extraordinary contribution to the field of journalism. The annual award by India’s largest state honors outstanding achievement and contribution by its diaspora in various fields. In 2021, she was honored by the Consulate General of India, New York on occasion of Pravasi Bharatiya Divas, the biennial event to celebrate the Indian diaspora and their outstanding achievements, in recognition of her leadership and community service.
She is the author of ‘Shrilal Shukla’s Raag Darbari: Satire in Indian Literature’, published in 2017. Her debut book is a critical analysis on the evolution of satire in Indian Literature, with distinguished Indian author Shrilal Shukla’s masterpiece and award-winning ‘Raag Darbari’ as the central focus.
As PTI’s only correspondent in the New York area for over a decade now since August 2011, Yoshita has reported on a broad spectrum of subjects – the annual high-level UN General Assembly sessions, landmark UN agreements such as the Paris Climate Accord and adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, India’s role and contribution at the UN, bilateral and multilateral issues at the UN, India-US ties, US Presidential elections, the Indian diaspora, visits to the US by Indian Prime Ministers, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s State Visit to the US in June 2023, and Cabinet Ministers as well as a wide array of economic, legal, social, cultural and entertainment issues.
Her accurate and unbiased news reports have appeared in leading Indian newspapers, magazines and several online portals and cited by scores of TV channels. Due to her expertise, she is regularly invited to speak at panels and interviewed on news channels on various topics. Her work has been consistently cited in dozens of critically-acclaimed books, trade publications, research papers, think-tank reports and journals.
