Salil Tripathi

Salil Tripathi was born in Bombay. He is a contributing editor at Mint and at Caravan. In the UK, he was board member of English PEN from 2009 to 2013, and co-chaired PEN’s Writers-at-Risk Committee. In November 2011, he won the third prize at the Bastiat Awards for Journalism about free societies, in New York. He was a correspondent in India from 1987 to 1990 and moved to Singapore (and later Hong Kong) from 1991 to 1999. He moved to London in 1999. Salil has written for many Indian and international publications. Salil's first book was Offence: The Hindu Case, about the rise of Hindu nationalism and its implications on free expression. His book on the Bangladesh War of Liberation, The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and its Unquiet Legacy was published in November 2014 by the Aleph Book Company. His collection of travel writing will be published by Tranquebar in early 2015.