Sadanand Dhume
Sadanand Dhume is an American writer and journalist based in Washington, D.C. who writes on Asian affairs. Since 2010, he has been the Wall Street Journal's South Asia columnist, and he is a Resident Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the author of My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with a Radical Islamist, a travel narrative about the rise of fundamentalism in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country.[1]
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Born | New Delhi, India |
Occupation | Writer, Journalist |
Awards | Bernard Schwartz Fellow, Asia Society |
Website | http://www.aei.org/profile/sadanand-dhume/ |
Between 1999 and 2004 Dhume lived in Asia. He served as India bureau chief of the Far Eastern Economic Review and as Indonesia correspondent of FEER and The Wall Street Journal Asia. His essays, op-eds and reviews have also been published in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Forbes, Commentary, YaleGlobal and Foreign Policy. His television appearances include CNN, PBS, BBC World, Al Jazeera International, CNBC Asia and ABC Television; he has also been interviewed by BBC World Service Radio, ABC Radio and ABC Radio (Australia).
Dhume holds a master's degree in international relations from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, a master’s in journalism from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, and a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Delhi.
In 2007 Dhume was an inaugural Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society.[2] He is currently working on a nonfiction book about economic, social, and political trends in modern India.
Publications
- My Friend the Fanatic (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2009).
- "India Needs Harvard as Well as Hard Work" The Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2019.
- "Pakistan, Stop Coddling Terrorists" The Wall Street Journal, November 29, 2018.
- "India Should Quit Harassing the ‘Super-Rich’," The Wall Street Journal, August 22, 2019.
- "Hindu Supremacism Turns Deadly in Delhi," Wall Street Journal, March 5, 2020.
- "The Dueling Narratives of India’s Kashmir Crackdown," The Atlantic, September 5, 2019.
- "Is India an Ally?" Commentary, January 2008.
- "Sir Salman Rushdie," The Wall Street Journal, June 23, 2007.
- "Playboy in Indonesia," The Wall Street Journal, March 29, 2007.
References
- Australian. "My Friend the Fanatic by Sadanand Dhume". textpublishing.com.au.
- "Bernard Schwartz Fellows Program". Asia Society.
- "An Indian atheist takes on the Islamist world in Indonesia". The Jakarta Post. 10 August 2008. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
- Dhume, Sadanand. My Friend the Fanatic. Westland. ISBN 978-93-80283-48-7. Retrieved 24 September 2013.
As a lifelong atheist, I had little sympathy for organised religion...