Raghu Karnad

Raghu Karnad is an Indian journalist and writer, and a recipient of the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Non-Fiction.[1] He is the author of Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War[2][3] which was shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman Prize for 2016, and was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for a writer in English the same year.[4] His articles and essays have won international awards including the Lorenzo Natali Journalism Prize in 2008, the Press Institute of India National Award for Reporting on the Victims of Armed Conflict in 2008, and a prize from the inaugural Financial Times-Bodley Head Essay Competition in 2012.

Raghu Karnad
Karnad in 2019
EducationSwarthmore College
St. Cross College, Oxford University
OccupationJournalist, writer
Notable work
Farthest Field – An Indian Story of the Second World War
Parent(s)

Karnad was previously the editor of Time Out Delhi. He is the son of late Girish Karnad. He has also contributed articles to The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Granta and The Guardian.[5][6][7][8][9][10] In 2015, he was part of the founding team of The Wire (India), and later held the position of Chief of Bureau in New Delhi.[11]

He was a student at Swarthmore College, and he spent a semester at the American University of Cairo and managed to get a meeting with Yassar Arafat.[12] In 2019, he was one the writers invited to the Neilson Hays Bangkok Literature Festival.[13]

Bibliography
  • Everybody’s Friend. ISBN 978-1448181650.
  • Farthest Field – An Indian Story of the Second World War. ISBN 978-0008133238.

References
  1. "Raghu Karnad". Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes. March 12, 2019. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
  2. Winchester, Simon (9 July 2015). "India's Second World War: the history you don't hear about". New Statesman. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  3. Mukherjee, Neel (5 June 2015). "'Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War,' by Raghu Karnad". The Financial Times. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  4. "Raghu Karnad's book shortlisted for Hessell-Tiltman Prize". Business Standard India. 2 March 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  5. Karnad, Raghu (2020-04-13). "The Coronavirus offers a Radical New Vision for India's Cities". Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  6. Karnad, Raghu (2019-05-22). "In Kashmir, Indian Democracy Loses Ground to Millenial Militancy". Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  7. Karnad, Raghu; Datto, Arko (2018-09-07). "The Diverging Paths of Two Young Women Foretell the Fate of a Tribe in India". ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  8. Karnad, Raghu (2017-12-16). "Sonia Gandhi Leaves the Stage". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  9. "The Ghost in the Kimono". Granta Magazine. 2015-03-04. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  10. Karnad, Raghu; Jajo, Grace (2016-07-21). "Confessions of a killer policeman | Raghu Karnad and Grace Jajo". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  11. Choudhary, Vidhi (8 May 2015). "Former editor of 'The Hindu' to launch news website". Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  12. https://www.swarthmore.edu/past-commencements/charge-to-raghu-karnad
  13. "3 Dynamic Cultural Festivals Take Over Bangkok from Oct - Dec 2019". Prestige Online. 2019-10-23. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
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