After working on and off in Boston for 30 years, journalist Indira Lakshmanan is returning to the “hub of the universe” as a co-host of NPR’s “Here & Now” segment.

Coming back to Boston and WBUR is “a dream come true,” Lakshmanan told Boston.com .

Lakshmanan grew up in Pittsburgh, but spent summers and holiday breaks exploring Boston and riding the Green Line while she visited her father and stepmother who lived in Newton, she said.

She went on to study art history at Harvard University, where her eldest son is currently a sophomore, before starting her career in journalism at NPR, she said. After that, Lakshmanan worked at The Boston Globe as a local reporter and then as a foreign correspondent from 1993 to 2007.

Then , Lakshmanan moved to Washington, D.C. where she worked as a c

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