Indian journalist (born )
Praveen Swami | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Citizenship | Indian |
| Occupation(s) | journalist and author |
| Spouse | Nishtha Gautam |
Praveen Swami (born ) is an Indian journalist and author specialising on international strategic and security issues.[1] He is currently the Group Consulting Editor at Network18 Group. He was the Diplomatic Editor of The Daily Telegraph newspaper between September – October , after which, he became the National Editor (Strategic and International Affairs) of The Indian Express newspaper from August January Swami is the author of two books on the India-Pakistan conflict in Kashmir.[1] He was described by the BBC as "one of India's foremost experts of Islamist terrorism".[2]
Swami was the Associate Editor of the Indian newspaper The Hindu from , for which he reported on topics such as the conflict in Kashmir, the Left-wing Maoist insurgency in India, and Islamic groups.[3] He reported on Kashmir, Punjab and security issues for much of the s before becoming the Mumbai bureau chief in He was appointed as Resident Editor New Delhi, The Hindu in October Swami, along with Rural Affairs Editor P Sainath, resigned from The Hindu in mid Both journalists hinted they found it difficult to work under the new system which emerged after the shift in power structure [changes in the top-level management, when family decided to run The Hindu itself] in Kasturi and Sons Ltd in October Former editor Siddhartha Varadarajan and Executive Editor MK Venu were ousted from their positions in October [4][5]
Praveen Swami has won several awards for his work. He received the Sanskriti Samman Award in for a series of investigative stories on Indian military and intelligence failures preceding and during the Kargil conflict. His work on the Indian army's counter-terrorist operations won him the Prem Bhatia Memorial Award for Political Journalism in [6] In , he also won the Indian Express - Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism prize for "his extensive and in-depth reports on terrorism in Jammu & Kashmir, and investigations into the merchants of terror."[7] Swami was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington in –[8]