Rahul Pandita

Rahul Pandita is an Indian author and journalist. At the age of 14, Rahul had to leave Kashmir Valley along with his family in January 1990 as part of the Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits. Rahul Pandita's recent job was the Opinion and Special Stories editor of The Hindu, one of India's leading newspapers.[5] He quit The Hindu citing frequent and childish interventions in edit pages by Malini Parthasarathy, the owner-editor of the paper. He was one of the founding members of the much-acclaimed Open magazine and has also previously worked with the Indian Express and the TV Today group. He is a conflict-writer, who has reported extensively from war zones, including Iraq and Sri Lanka. His vast experience in reporting on India's Maoist insurgency has resulted in two books: Hello, Bastar: The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement and The Absent State.