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Rahul Bhatia

Rahul Bhatia is an award-winning writer and journalist. He has published in the New Yorker, Guardian Long Reads, and Caravan among others. He is a Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellow (2022-23) and a winner of the True Story Award (2024). He mentors writers and journalists as part of the ‘South Asia Speaks’ collective, and was a co-founder of the Peepli Project, a journalism non-profit. A former advertising art director, he graduated in communication design from Pratt Institute, New York. The New India: The Unmaking of the World’s Largest Democracy (2024) is his latest publication.