RAHUL PANDITA

Rahul Pandita is an Indian author and Journalist. He is the author of three best-selling and critically acclaimed books: "Our Moon has Blood Clots: A memoir of a lost home in Kashmir" , "Hello, Bastar: The untold story of India's Maoist movement" and "The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur: How the Pulwama case was cracked". Pandita has worked as a war correspondent, and is known for his journalistic dispatches from the war hit countries like Iraq and Sri Lanka. He has also reported from North-Eastern India. In 2009, he was given a rare opportunity to interview the Maoist supreme commander, Ganapathi. Pandita was also awarded the New India Fellowship. In 2015, he was also named a Yale World Fellow.

Pandita was awarded the International Red Cross award for his reportage from the Maoist-affected areas in central and east India, in 2010.