Rahul Pandita
Rahul Pandita | |
|---|---|
| Born | Kashmir, India |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Occupation(s) | Was Opinion and Special Stories editor, The Hindu. Quit Jan 2015. |
| Awards | International Red Cross award (2010) |
Rahul Pandita (Hindustani pronunciation: [raːɦʊl pŋɖɪt̪aː]) is an Indian author and journalist. He is a 2015 Yale World Fellow. He is also the writer of a forthcoming Hindi film on Kashmir, to be directed by the veteran filmmaker, Vidhu Vinod Chopra.[citation needed]
Career
Journalism career
Rahul Pandita's recent job was the Opinion and Special Stories editor of The Hindu, one of India's leading newspapers.[1] He quit The Hindu citing frequent and childish interventions in edit pages by Malini Parthasarathy, the owner-editor of the paper. He was one of the founding members of the much-acclaimed Open magazine and has also previously worked with the Indian Express and the TV Today group. He is a conflict-writer, who has reported extensively from war zones, including Iraq and Sri Lanka. His vast experience in reporting on India's Maoist insurgency has resulted in two books: Hello, Bastar: The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement and The Absent State. He is also the author of the best-selling memoir on Kashmir, Our Moon Has Blood Clots.[2]
Pandita has worked as a war correspondent, and is known for his brilliant journalistic dispatches from the war hit countries like Iraq and Sri Lanka. However, in the recent years, his focal point has been the Maoist movement in India's red corridor.[3] He has also reported from North-Eastern India.[4] In 2009, he became the first ever journalist to have interviewed the Maoist supreme commander, Ganapathi.[5]
Literary career
Pandita has written several books including the best-seller Our Moon Has Blood Clots, covering the ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Hindus, which was described as the "most powerful non-fiction book of the year".[6]
Other books include The Absent State: Insurgency as an Excuse for Misgovernance, co-authored with Neelesh Misra,[4] Hello Bastar – The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement,[7]
Awards
Pandita was awarded the International Red Cross award for his reportage from the Maoist-affected areas in central and east India, in 2010.[3] In 2015, he was named a Yale World Fellow.[8]
References
- ^ "A requiem for moral coherence".
- ^ "Book Review: 'Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits' - Latest News & Updates at Daily News & Analysis". dna. February 10, 2013. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
- ^ a b "about me". rahulpandita.com. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
- ^ a b The Absent State: Insurgency as an Excuse for Misgovernance (illustrated ed.). Gurgaon: Hachette India (Local). 2010. ISBN 978-93-50092-15-6. OCLC 636921104.
- ^ "We Shall Certainly Defeat the Government – Somewhere in the impregnable jungles of Dandakaranya, the supreme commander of CPI (Maoist) spoke to Pandita on issues ranging from the Government's proposed anti-Naxal offensive to Islamist Jihadist movements" (Document). Dandakaranya: OPEN. 17 October 2009.
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- ^ Pandita, Rahul (2011). Hello, Bastar – The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement. Chennai: Westland (Tranquebar Press). ISBN 978-93-80658-34-6. OCLC 754482226.
- ^ Sharma, Betwa (April 18, 2015). "Two Indians Named 2015 Yale World Fellows In US". HuffPost India. Archived from the original on November 26, 2015. Retrieved May 15, 2018.
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Further reading
- Anuradha Bhasin Jamwal, A Moon has Many Shades, Economic and Political Weekly, 27 April 2013.
- Rahul Pandita, Selective Memory, Collective Amnesia, Economic and Political Weekly, 1 June 2013.
- Sualeh Keen, Inconvenient People, Economic and Political Weekly, 8 June 2013.
- Bashir Manzir, Kashmir: A Tale of Two Communities, Cloven, Economic and Political Weekly, 27 July 2013.
- D. P. Satish, Book review: Our Moon Has Blood Clots, Gateway House, 1 February 2013.
- Prayaag Akbar, A partial but important depiction of loss and exile, The Sunday Guardian, 7 February 2013.
- Pradeep Magazine, From the Valley, a selective remembrance of things past, The Hindu, 8 February 2013.
- Amberish K. Dewanji, Book Review: 'Our Moon Has Blood Clots: The exodus of the Kashmiri Pandits', Daily News and Analysis, 10 February 2013.
- Peter Griffin, Rahul Pandita On Kashmir and its Stories, Forbes India, 8 March 2013.
- K. S. Narayanan, Book Review: Our Moon Has Blood Clots, The Sunday Indian, 14 March 2013.
- Nandini Krishnan, Rahul Pandita, Basharat Peer and Kashmir's contradictory stories, SIFY News, 25 April 2013.
- Dilip Simeon, Superfluous People: On Rahul Pandita’s Our Moon Has Blood Clots, Northeast Review, 4 May 2013