Salil Tripathi

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About Salil Tripathi

Author of:"The Gujaratis: A Portrait of the Community"(Aleph, 2024)."Detours: Songs of the Open Road"(Tranquebar, 2015)"The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and its Unquiet Legacy"(Aleph, 2014, Yale, 2016)"Offence: The Hindu Case"(Seagull, 2009)Co-edited (with Shilpa Gupta)"For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit: Encounters with Prison"(Context, 2022). Salil's writings and poetry have been anthologised in several volumes and he has contributed to academic journals. He is board member, PEN International, and contributing editor at Index on Censorship, Singapore Unbound, and the Caravan magazine. He has also been widely published in Wall Street Journal, International Herald Tribune, FEER, New Statesman, Guardian, Independent, Spectator, Philadelphia Inquirer, Washington Post, Newsweek, Salon, among - Far Eastern Economic Review (Singapore). Economics correspondent. Wrote extensively from Indonesia, Malaysia, Hong Kong, Thailand, the Philippines. Covered the Asian economic crisis. 1993-1997 - Asia, Inc.(Singapore). Southeast Asia correspondent. Reported extensively from Asean states and south Asia. Winner, Citibank Award for economic journalism.1991-1993 - Business Times (Singapore). Correspondent. Reported on India, South Africa, Middle East, SE Asia.1988-1991 - India Today (Bombay): Senior Correspondent. Reported from all over India. Covered the build-up of the 1990-91 Gulf Crisis from Jordan and the Gulf States. Cowrote award-winning cover story on the ban on Satanic Verses.1987 - 1988 - Indian Post (Bombay). Assistant Editor, editorial page. Wrote a weekly column and managed the op-ed page. 1986-1987 - free lance writer - published widely in newspapers and magazines in India. 1983-1985 - MBA at Dartmounth College; Rotary International Graduate Scholar. Awarded the Dickey Endowment student award for intl understanding.1979-1982 - B Com at Univ of Bombay. Tata scholar. Won the highest award for proficiency and character.Specialties: Economics, Business, Politics, the Arts. Published in leading newspapers around the world.