Salil Tripathi

Salil Tripathi is a writer based in Brooklyn, NY. Born in Bombay, India, he lived in Singapore from 1991-1999, and had a stint at Business Times, before moving to Asia, Inc., and later Far Eastern Economic Review, where he reported on the Asian economic crisis and Suharto's fall in Indonesia. He then moved to London, where he lived 20 years, before moving again, to New York, in 2019. He has studied at the University of Bombay and later at the Tuck Business School at Dartmouth College in the United States, and has reported extensively out of Southeast Asia, South Asia, and written about Africa and Europe. He is the author of three works of non-fiction: Offence: The Hindu Case (about Hindu nationalism and freedom of expression), The Colonel Who Would Not Repent (about the Bangladesh War of Liberation), and Detours: Songs of the Open Road, a collection of travel essays. With the artist Shilpa Gupta, he co-edited For, In Your Tongue, I Cannot Fit, an anthology of writings from prison. His journalism has won awards in the US, Hong Kong, and India. His next book, on the Gujaratis, will be published in 2024. He is on the board of PEN International and was the chair of its Writers in Prison Committee, 2015-2021. More about him: saliltripathi.