拉胡尔·潘迪塔

拉胡尔·潘迪塔（英语：Rahul Pandita）是一位印度作家、记者。

职业生涯

新闻业

曾是《印度报》《意见与特别故事》编辑， 2015年辞职。他亦是《开放》杂志的创始人之一，此前还曾与《印度快报》和《今日电视》合作。他是一位冲突作家，曾广泛报道过伊拉克和斯里兰卡等战争地区，其报道印度毛派叛乱事件方面的丰富经验造就了两本书。此外，他还是关于克什米尔的畅销回忆录《我们的月球有血凝块》的作者。

曾是一名战地记者，以杰出的新闻报道闻名于世，这些新闻报道来自伊拉克和斯里兰卡等受战争打击的国家；然而近年来，他的焦点是印度红色走廊的毛派运动。他还从印度东北部报道。2009年，他成为第一个采访毛派最高指挥官贾纳帕蒂的记者。

文学生涯

潘迪塔写过几本书，其中包括畅销书《我们的月球上有血凝块》（Our Moon Has Blood Clots），这本书涵盖了克什米尔印度教徒的种族清洗，被称为“年度最具力量的非虚构书籍”。

与印度毛派相关的两本书是《缺席状态：叛乱作为治理不善的借口》（The Absent State: Insurgency as an Excuse for Misgovernance），与尼莱什·米斯拉（Neelesh Misra）合著；《你好，巴斯塔尔——印度毛主义运动的未讲述的故事》（Hello Bastar – The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement）。

奖项

因报道印度中部和东部受毛派影响的地区而获得2010年国际红十字会奖。 2015年，成为耶鲁世界研究员。

Rahul Pandita (Hindi pronunciation: [raːɦʊl pŋɖɪt̪aː]) is an Indian author and journalist.

Early life

Rahul Pandita is a Kashmiri Pandit born in the Kashmir Valley. In 1990, at the age of 14, he had to leave the Valley along with his family as part of the Exodus of Kashmiri Pandits.

Career

Pandita is the author of three best-selling and critically-acclaimed books: "Our Moon has Blood Clots: A memoir of a lost home in Kashmir" (Penguin Random House, 2013); "Hello, Bastar: The untold story of India's Maoist movement" (Westland, 2011), and "The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur: How the Pulwama case was cracked (Juggernaut, 2021). He is one of the founding members of the much-acclaimed Open magazine and has also previously worked with the Indian Express and the TV Today group. He was also the Opinion and Special Stories Editor of The Hindu, one of India's leading newspapers, which he quit citing frequent and childish interventions in edit pages by Malini Parthasarathy, the owner-editor of the paper. He is a conflict-writer, who has reported extensively from war zones, including Iraq and Sri Lanka. His vast experience in reporting on India's Maoist insurgency has resulted in two books: Hello, Bastar: The Untold Story of India's Maoist Movement and The Absent State.

Pandita is the author of the best-selling memoir on Kashmir, Our Moon Has Blood Clots, covering the ethnic cleansing of Kashmiri Hindus, which was described as the "most powerful non-fiction book of the year". The book inspired many parts of the 2020 Hindi film Shikara.

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 is currently writing a screenplay for a web series for Sony Liv, based on his book on Pulwama, to be directed by the filmmaker Onir. It is supposed to be out by 2023.

Works

The Absent State (2010)

Hello, Bastar (2011)

Our Moon Has Blood Clots (2013)

The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur (2021)

Hello, Bastar

The book covers the Naxalite–Maoist insurgency in the Bastar district beginning the 1980s. The book includes several interviews and real life accounts and was published by Westland.

Awards

Pandita was awarded the International Red Cross award for his reportage from the Maoist-affected areas in central and east India, in 2010. In 2015, he was named a Yale World Fellow.