Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Center for Contemporary South Asia

Siddharth Varadarajan — The Media and India's Democracy Today an OP Jindal Distinguished Lecture

Friday, April 15, 2022

2:00pm - 4:00pm EST

Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St

Read the text of the lecture. "The Media and India's Democracy Today".

Commentators:

Edward Luce, Financial Times
Salil Tripathi, Author
Paula Chakravartty, New York University

Siddharth Varadarajan is a a Founding Editor of The Wire and senior fellow at the Centre for Public Affairs and Critical Theory, New Delhi. Previously, he was the Editor of The Hindu. An economist by training, he studied at the London School of Economics and Columbia University and taught at New York University before returning to India to work as a journalist. He has been a visiting lecturer at the journalism school at the University of California, Berkeley and a Poynter Fellow at Yale University.

 

OP Jindal Distinguished Lectures

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