24 year old Sangeet Sangroula is among the new Students of 2018 in the Global Business Journalism Program at Tsinghua university. The Journalist is the only student from Nepal in a class of 18 international students from 13 different Countries.
He is a former fellow of the Chinese Public Diplomacy Association courtesy of Republica an English newspaper in his Country. The ten month experience he had while reporting on China's road and belt initiative exposed Him to the country, its people and students from the GBJ program. This stirred a desire in Him to pursue the degree, a process he started before returning home in December 2017.
The firstborn in a family of two was born of teaching parents who lived in Birgunj, a plain area 300 kilometers away from Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal where He was raised. He later moved to the Capital of his homeland to pursue a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism and English Literature. This he says was facilitated by the humanities path He picked in high school. In those two years he majored in Sociology, Journalism and English Literature. This he admits was what launched him into his early career as a journalist.
He started as an interim at Nepal News Agency and the Kathmandu Post. He later worked for one year as a translator at Republica Daily before working as a full-time reporter. He has handled different beats under the different bureaus of the newspaper.
In 2015 an earthquake struck Nepal and caused lots of damage. It was this beat that propelled him higher. He started reporting on political issues'; the main and local governments and at that point in his career he was selected for the fellowship in China In February 2017.
"I don't plan a lot," he says. The GBJ student who also admits to not having a bias for any blog, hopes that the GBJ program will equip him with skills that can make him globally competitive in the field of business journalism.
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