Siddharth Varadarajan
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Siddharth Varadarajan (b. 1965) is a leading Indian journalist and editor of Gujarat: The Making of a Tragedy. He has reported on the NATO war against Yugoslavia, the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq and the crisis in Kashmir. He now works for The Hindu.
After studying economics at the London School of Economics and Columbia University, he taught at New York University for several years before joining The Times of India as an editorial writer in 1995. In 2004, he joined The Hindu, India's most respected English-language national daily, as Deputy Editor.
In November 2005, the United Nations Correspondents Association awarded him the Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize Silver Medal for Print Journalism for a series of articles, Persian Puzzle on Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency. [link] In March 2006, he was awarded the Bernardo O'Higgins Order by the President of Chile -- that country's highest civilian honour for a foreign citizen -- for his contributions to journalism and to the promotion of India's relations with Latin America and Chile. [link]
Gujarat: The Making of a Tragedy, edited by Varadarajan, contains accounts of the violence against the Muslims of that province of India. The book was published by Penguin Books in 2002.
Bibliography
- Gujarat: The Making of a Tragedy ISBN 0143029010
External links
- [Archive of Varadarajan's writings]
- [Review of Gujarat: The Making of a Tragedy]
- [List of essays in the book]
- [UNCA award for his reports on IAEA]
- [Charles Glass on Sidharth Varadarajan's argument with the CPJ about Nato bombing in The Spectator]
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