Mira Sen

An investigative field reporter based in Bhubaneswar, working for a national digital platform. She had been investigating administrative irregularities in the Rath Yatra organisation for three months before she stood on the press gantry and filmed the rope. The administrative story was already solid. RTI documents, a classified survey, eighteen months of financial reclassification, Deo's signature on a declination order four years before the first disruption. She had enough to print. What she didn't have was the rope. She is not a person who publishes the wrong story. She held the administrative piece until she understood what she was holding. When she published the etymology correction — his name is not Juggernaut, it is Jaggarnath — she was not performing devotion. She was correcting the record. That distinction matters to her. It is the same as all the others she has made.