Salil Tripathi
Salil Tripathi writes for Mint and the Caravan, besides other publications. He chairs PEN International’s writers in prison committee. Born in Mumbai, he is the author of three works of non-fiction and lives in New York.
Letter from New York
An account of life under COVID-19 from the new epicentre of the pandemic.
Apr 15, 2020
Is the mob ruling the roost?
JNU violence shows the fringe is at the Centre.
Jan 07, 2020
Caging the canary
Raids and arrests in India exhibit intolerance of dissent.
Sep 04, 2018
Unaccounted citizens
The Rohingya struggle to find a place for themselves inside and outside Myanmar.
Jun 04, 2016
The tomb of Sha-Za-Fa
BOOK EXTRACT: A writer in search of Bahadur Shah Zafar’s tomb in Burma.
Dec 24, 2015
Bangladeshi inquisitions
Freedom of expression in Bangladesh is caught between the machete and the magistrate.
Sep 01, 2015
Latest Articles
Radio’s role in making and unmaking Southasia’s borders
‘Radio for the Millions’ charts the medium’s role in popular cultures and state-making projects of the Subcontinent, rethinking long-held assumptions on transnational listenership
Pakistan embraces military rule without martial law
New laws have created jurisdiction for the military to operate at both federal and provincial levels of government, with serious implications for Pakistan’s already precarious federation.
Strains between Malé and the atolls in the Maldives
Forced migration, “development” pressures, political neglect and the climate crisis have assailed the Maldives’ less-populous atolls, eroding the country’s identity and driving thousands to the capital
Manipur’s conflict has harsh lessons for all of India’s Northeast
Rampant ethnic chauvinism of the kind that has shattered Manipur’s civil society is ingrained in communities across the Northeast
