Sudeep Chakravarti

Sudeep Chakravarti is among India’s foremost chroniclers of journeys—cultural, social, economic, political, and regional—and the author of several landmark and best-selling works of narrative non-fiction that span history, culture, conflict and conflict resolution, and the intersection of democracy and development. These include The Bengalis: A Portrait of a Community; Plassey: The Battle that Changed the Course of Indian History; Red Sun: Travels in Naxalite Country; Eastern Gate: War and Peace in Nagaland, Manipur and India’s Far East; Highway 39: Journeys through a Fractured Land, and his latest, Fallen City: A Double Murder, Political Insanity, and Delhi’s Descent from Grace, a socio-political study of the killings of Geeta and Sanjay Chopra by Billa and Ranga, and the explosive aftermath. An extensively published writer and columnist on South Asian affairs and security issues, Sudeep has worked with global and Indian organisations, including The Asian Wall Street Journal, where he began his career, and he subsequently held leadership positions at Sunday magazine, India Today magazine, the India Today Group, and HT Media. Alongside, Sudeep is an educator who has taught university-level courses in a range of subjects from South Asian affairs and conflict resolution to journalism and literature; and is executive director of the Stepwell Centre for Asian Futures, a new policy-research and advocacy think tank at Ahmedabad University. He is also a marine conservationist.