Anita also worked for '' India Today '' and then was a correspondent for '' TIME Magazine '' for eight years . Post 1993-bombings in Bombay ( now Mumbai ) , she also interviewed Bal Thackeray for '' TIME '' , who was the then chief of Shiv Sena which was the leading opposition party in the state of Maharashtra . In 1996 , she joined '' CNN '' , her first experience as television journalist . She worked from the Atlanta and the Bangkok bureau for a short while to get experience . She then covered news on Taliban 's takeover of Kabul for which she was presented with the George Polk Award
1993-bombings in Bombay
1993 Bombay bombings
Anita Pratap