Kishalay Bhattacharjee

Kishalay Bhattacharjee is a professor and dean at the Jindal School of Journalism and Communication, OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat, and director, New Imaginations. He is a journalist and former resident editor of NDTV and has reported widely from India’s conflict zones for over two decades.  

His books include Che in Paona Bazaar: Tales of Exile and Belonging from India’s Northeast (Pan Macmillan India, 2013); Blood on My Hands: Confessions of Staged Encounters (HarperCollins India, 2015); and An Unfinished Revolution: A Hostage Crisis and Adivasi Resistance and the Naxal Movement (Pan Macmillan India, 2017). His forthcoming book is on identity, citizenship and nationality (Orient Blackswan 2022). 

He has received several awards including the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award (2006-07). He was nominated for the best current affairs programme by the Association of International Broadcasting (AIB) Awards in 2013. Santi, Lucy and Thoibi, his documentary on HIV and Hepatitis C coinfection, was selected for international festivals in Goa and Barcelona. 

Kishalay was a recipient of the Penguin Random House Writers Residency Award (2016). He was chair, internal security and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, 2011. He is a Panos Fellow for HIV/ AIDS (2007) and an Edward Murrow Fellow in Journalism (2006). He is a recipient of a UKRI-British Council grant for mapping India's creative industry. 

He is the founder-curator of ArtEast – a festival of art and livelihood held annually at the India International Centre, New Delhi.