Gujarat: The Making of a Tragedy
Siddharth Varadarajan is deputy chief of the national bureau of theTimes of India. He has reported on several important political events, from Kashmir and the royal palace massacre in Nepal, to Pakistan, the weapons-inspection crisis in Iraq, the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan. Before his current assignment, he was an editorial writer for the same newspaper.Among his academic writings are the articles 'The Ink Link: Media, Communalism and the Evasion of Politics,' in K.N. Panikkar,The Concerned Indian's Guide to Communalism(Viking 1999), and 'The International Dynamics of a Nuclear India,' in D.R. Sardesai and Raju G.C. Thomas, Nuclear India in the Twenty-First Century (Palgrave, 2002). He studied at the London School of Economics and Columbia University and taught economics at New York University before turning to journalism in 1995.