Siddharth Varadarajan

Siddharth Varadarajan

Siddharth Varadarajan at Times Litfest 2016
Born 1965
Nationality American
Alma mater Columbia University
London School of Economics
Occupation Founding editor of The Wire
Spouse(s) Nandini Sundar
Awards Bernardo O'Higgins Order,
Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize
Website svaradarajan.blogspot.com

Siddharth Varadarajan (born 1965) is an Indian American journalist, editor, and academic. He is the former editor of The Hindu, one of India's leading English language newspapers. He has reported on the NATO war against Yugoslavia, the destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq and the crisis in Kashmir.Varadarajan has edited a book titled Gujarat:The Making of a Tragedy which is about the 2002 Gujarat riots.[1]

Early career

After studying economics at the London School of Economics and Columbia University, Varadarajan 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 leading English-language newspaper, as deputy editor. He worked as the Hindu's Chief of National Bureau, succeeding Harish Khare, who was named as then Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's media adviser, in June 2009.[2]

Editor of The Hindu

In May 2011, the shareholders of Kasturi and Sons Ltd. held an extraordinary general meeting and voted to appoint Varadarajan as The Hindu's editor on the recommendation of the company's board, thus making Varadarajan the first editor of the newspaper not drawn from the family of shareholders in its 150-year history.[3] Prior to his appointment, The Hindu's editors were drawn from the family of the company's owners. On Oct 21, 2013, Siddharth Varadarajan publicly announced via Twitter, his resignation from The Hindu, citing a change in policy by the owners of the newspaper to go back to being a family run and edited newspaper.[4]

Ineligibility Case

Academic positions

In 2007, Varadarajan was a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley.[10] In 2009, he was a Poynter Fellow at Yale University.[11][12]

Other affiliations

Varadarajan is a member of the International Founding Committee of The Real News,[13] a board member of the inter-governmental B.P. Koirala India-Nepal Foundation,[14] a member of the Indian Council of World Affairs and member of the editorial board of India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs [15] and a member of the Executive Council of the Maulana Abul Kalam Azad Institute of Asian Studies [16]

Current Work

In 2015, Varadarajan founded an online news portal called The Wire and became its Founding Editor.[17]

Awards and recognition

In November 2005, the United Nations Correspondents Association awarded Varadarajan 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.[18] In March 2006, he was awarded the Bernardo O'Higgins Order by the President of Chile—that country's highest civilian honor for a foreign citizen—for his contributions to journalism and to the promotion of India's relations with Latin America and Chile.[19] In July 2010, he received the Ramnath Goenka award for Journalist of the Year (Print).[20]

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Books

Essays, reporting and other contributions

References

Preceded by
Harish Khare		 Chief of the National Bureau
The Hindu
2009- 2011 		Succeeded by
Praveen Kumar Swami
Preceded by
Narasimhan Ram		 Editor
The Hindu
2011-2013 		Succeeded by
N. Ravi
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