Join us for a talk: "The Middle East Crisis in India."

Kishalay Bhattacharjee is currently Professor and Dean, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication and Director, New Imaginations. He is a journalist, author and former resident editor, New Delhi Television Ltd. (NDTV) and has reported widely from India’s conflict zones. 

His books include Che in Paona Bazaar: Tales of Exile and Belonging from India’s Northeast (Pan Macmillan India, 2013), Blood on My Hands: Confessions of Staged Encounters (Harper Collins India, 2015) and An Unfinished Revolution: A Hostage Crisis, Adivasi Resistance and the Naxal Movement (Pan Macmillan India, 2017) and Where the Madness Lies: Citizen Accounts of Identity and Nationalism (Orient Blackswan 2023). He has co-authored Mapping Innovation in India’s Creative Industries Policy, Context and Opportunities (Routledge 2024) and his forthcoming publications are two edited volumes, Bearing Witness: Reporting Conflict, Crisis and Disaster (Orient Blackswan), On Rivers and Water (Orient Blackswan) and a handbook on reporting from the margins (Routledge). 

Kishalay Bhattacharjee is the recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Award Excellence in Journalism, India's highest journalism award. He was Chair, Internal Security and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA). He was a Panos Fellow for HIV/ AIDS and an Edward Murrow Fellow in Journalism. He was the first recipient of Penguin Random House Writers Residency Award. He is the founder curator of ArtEast—a festival of art and livelihood held annually at the India International Centre, New Delhi.

This event is sponsored by The Schnitzer School of Global Studies and Languages.