Anshul Tewari is the founder and editor-in-chief of Youth Ki Awaaz (meaning "the voice of youth" in Hindi) a

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publishing platform aimed at the youth of India and centered around social issues, which is also the largest youth-based media platform in India.

Youth Ki Awaaz

When he was 17 years old, Tewari founded Youth Ki Awaaz (YKA) in 2008 while still in high school as a platform for Indian young people to share stories and issues that mattered to them, who felt issues relevant to them had been neglected by mainstream media. He continued working on YKA while at the

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, where he studied

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Honors and awards

Tewari was selected as a United Nations ITU Young Innovator in 2012. Tewari was named an Ashoka Fellow in 2015. Subsequently, he was named an INK Fellow. In 2018, Tewari was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list in Asia for Media, Marketing & Advertising. He serves on the board of Jhatkaa as a trustee, an organization whose mission is to build empower the Indian citizenry from the grassroots. He is also on the Board of Directors of Collectively, a

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and

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collaborative non-profit. Tewari participated in the

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’s Town Hall in

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on December 1, 2017.

References

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