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Samrat Choudhury

Samrat Choudhury is an author, commissioning editor, and former editor of dailies in India’s major metropolises, Delhi, Mumbai, and Bengaluru. His works include The Braided River (2021), The Urban Jungle (2011), and Northeast India: A Political History (2023). He has co-edited with Preeti Gill Insider/Outsider: Belonging and Unbelonging in India’s Northeast (2018), and But I Am One of You: Northeast India and the Struggle to Belong (2024). Some of his essays and short stories have been translated into German, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Years: 2025, 2019.