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B.A. (Honours) (St. Edmund’s College);

M.A. (North-eastern Hill University)

Prof. Kishalay Bhattacharjee

Professor and Dean, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication; Award-winning journalist and author Director, New Imaginations Former Resident Editor NDTV

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B.A. (Honours) (St. Edmund’s College);

M.A. (North-eastern Hill University)

Biography

Kishalay Bhattacharjee is currently a Professor and Dean, Jindal School of Journalism and Communication and Director, New Imaginations. He is a journalist and former Resident Editor, New Delhi Television Ltd. (NDTV) who has reported widely from India’s conflict zones for over two decades.

His books include Che in Paona Bazaar: Tales of Exile and Belonging from India’s Northeast (Pan Macmillan India, 2013), Blood on My Hands: Confessions of Staged Encounters (Harper Collins India, 2015), An Unfinished Revolution: A Hostage Crisis, Adivasi Resistance and the Naxal Movement (Pan Macmillan India, 2017) and Where the Madness Lies: Citizen Accounts of Identity and Nationalism (Orient Blackswan 2023).

He has received several awards including the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award (2006- 07). He was nominated for the best current affairs programme by the Association of International Broadcasting (AIB) Awards in 2013. Santi, Lucy and Thoibi, his documentary on HIV and Hepatitis C co-infection was selected for international festivals in Goa and Barcelona.

Kishalay Bhattacharjee was the first recipient of the Penguin Random House Writers Residency Award (2016). He was Chair, Internal Security and a Senior Fellow at India’s biggest think tank, the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA), 2011. He was a Panos Fellow for HIV/ AIDS (2007) and an Edward Murrow Fellow in Journalism (2006).

He is also the founder and curator of ArtEast—a festival of art and livelihood held annually at the India International Centre, New Delhi.

Awarded the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism, 2006; India’s Refugees, Outsider’s Forever NDTV Classics

1996- 2013 - New Delhi Television Limited (NDTV), India

Roles

  • 2009-2013, Resident Editor
  • 2004-2009, Bureau Chief, Northeast India
  • 2000-2004, Special Correspondent, Northeast India
  • 1996-2000, Associate Producer, New Delhi

Responsibilities

  • Conflict and post-conflict stories from India and the neighbourhood
  • Co-produced documentary series, Out of India for the BBC
  • Associate producer of India’s first live breakfast show, Good Morning India
  • Launched NDTV Online, the first digital convergence
  • Launched the network’s website, www.ndtv.com
  • Extensive experience in planning and deploying teams on big coverage for all the TV and digital outlets of NDTV
  • Planning and production of extensive coverage like the Indian elections
  • Long format investigative documentaries on cross-border terrorism, global narcotic smuggling, and human trafficking

2013- 2016 - Media and Editorial Consultant

  • Advisor on media and communication strategies to civil society and media networks like Save The Children, National Foundation for India and Newslaundry, a digital media outlet
  • Columnist and Political Commentator

The Making of Northeast of India:1947 and After, AAS-in-Asia Conference, 2018, New Delhi

Security and Religious Extremism: The Indian Experience, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 2015

“Civil Society and Social Marginality: Voices of the disenfranchised”, English and Foreign Language University, Shillong 2014; http://www.eflushc.ac.in/conference/index.html

Discrimination Report 2014 (Edt.), published by Reachout Foundation; http://reachoutfoundation.org.in/new.html

Invisible Child Soldiers: Narratives of Exile and Belonging in India's Northeast, Heidelberg University, Germany, 2013; http://www.sai.uni-heidelberg.de/sapol/bne.pdf

Counterinsurgency and the Possibility of Framing a National Policy, Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses, 2011

The Impact of Identity Politics on Violent Extremism: Regional Perspectives; S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore, 2011; http://issuu.com/rsisntu/docs/rsis_radicalisation_workshop_report_211211/28

Barcelona Film Festival, 2008 and International Film Festival, Goa, 2008; Santi, Lucy and Thoibi- NDTV Classics
Email kbhattacharjee@jgu.edu.in
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