Raghu Karnad

Raghu Karnad
Karnad in 2019
EducationSwarthmore College
Oxford University
Occupation(s)Journalist, writer
Notable workFarthest Field – An Indian Story of the Second World War
FatherGirish Karnad

Raghu Karnad is an Indian journalist and writer, and a recipient of the Windham–Campbell Literature Prize for Non-Fiction.[1] He is a 2022-'23 fellow at the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library.[2] His book, Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War,[3][4] was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar for a writer in English in 2016, and shortlisted for the Hessell-Tiltman Prize in the same year.[5] 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.

Karnad was previously the editor of Time Out Delhi. He has also contributed articles to The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Granta and The Guardian.[6][7][8][9][10][11] 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.[12]

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.[13] In 2019, he was one of the writers invited to the Neilson Hays Bangkok Literature Festival.[14]

  1. ^ "Raghu Karnad". Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes. March 12, 2019. Archived from the original on January 7, 2023. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
  2. ^ "Meet the 2022–2023 Fellows of the Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers". nypl.org USA. 12 April 2022. Archived from the original on 12 April 2022. Retrieved 13 July 2022.
  3. ^ Winchester, Simon (9 July 2015). "India's Second World War: the history you don't hear about". New Statesman. Archived from the original on 13 June 2017. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  4. ^ Mukherjee, Neel (5 June 2015). "'Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War,' by Raghu Karnad". The Financial Times. Archived from the original on 18 August 2018. Retrieved 13 May 2017.
  5. ^ "Raghu Karnad's book shortlisted for Hessell-Tiltman Prize". Business Standard India. 2 March 2016. Archived from the original on 29 July 2016. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  6. ^ Karnad, Raghu (2020-04-13). "The Coronavirus offers a Radical New Vision for India's Cities". Archived from the original on 2020-05-15. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  7. ^ Karnad, Raghu (2019-05-22). "In Kashmir, Indian Democracy Loses Ground to Millenial Militancy". Archived from the original on 2020-10-25. Retrieved 2020-05-13.
  8. ^ Karnad, Raghu; Datto, Arko (2018-09-07). "The Diverging Paths of Two Young Women Foretell the Fate of a Tribe in India". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Archived from the original on 2020-01-11. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  9. ^ Karnad, Raghu (2017-12-16). "Sonia Gandhi Leaves the Stage". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on 2020-03-18. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  10. ^ "The Ghost in the Kimono". Granta Magazine. 2015-03-04. Archived from the original on 2020-12-02. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  11. ^ Karnad, Raghu; Jajo, Grace (2016-07-21). "Confessions of a killer policeman | Raghu Karnad and Grace Jajo". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Archived from the original on 2019-12-14. Retrieved 2019-12-26.
  12. ^ Choudhary, Vidhi (8 May 2015). "Former editor of 'The Hindu' to launch news website". Archived from the original on 7 June 2017. Retrieved 12 June 2017.
  13. ^ "Charge to Raghu Karnad". 8 July 2014. Archived from the original on 15 December 2018. Retrieved 12 December 2018.
  14. ^ "3 Dynamic Cultural Festivals Take Over Bangkok from Oct - Dec 2019". Prestige Online. 2019-10-23. Archived from the original on 2019-12-20. Retrieved 2019-12-26.