Salil Tripathi

Salil Tripathi is an Indian author and editor. He is currently the Chair of PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee. He is a contributing editor to The Caravan[1] and Mint.[2]

Salil Tripathi
Born
Mumbai, India
NationalityIndian
Alma materUniversity of Bombay, Dartmouth College
Occupationauthor, editor
Notable work
Offence: The Hindu Case

Biography

Tripathi was born in Mumbai. He was educated at the New Era School in Mumbai and graduated from the Sydenham College of the University of Bombay.[3] Tripathi obtained his MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College in the United States.

Career

Tripathi's articles have appeared in Foreign Policy,[4] The Wall Street Journal,[5] The Far Eastern Economic Review, and The International Herald Tribune.

His articles have also appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The New Republic, The San Francisco Chronicle, Salon, and The Philadelphia Inquirer in the United States. Tripathi's articles have also appeared in The Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman, The Spectator, and Prospect in the United Kingdom.

Tripathi has been a senior visiting fellow for business and human rights at the Kennedy School, Harvard University.

Books

2020 Twitter Suspension

In December 2020, Tripathi's Twitter account was suspended. Salman Rushdie was among the writers who criticized Twitter for this decision. Shashi Tharoor, Amitav Ghosh, Suketu Mehta, Prashant Bhusan,[6] Paranjoy Guha Thakurta,[7] Aakar Patel, and Nilanjana Roy also criticized Twitter's decision.[8][9][10][11][12]

PEN International also criticized Twitter's suspension of Tripathi's account and urged Twitter to have more transparent policies.[13]

Awards

He received the Bastiat Prize (third place) in 2011.[14]

References
  1. "Salil Tripathi". caravanmagazine.in. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  2. "Salil Tripathi". livemint.com. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  3. Sundaram, Jomo Kwame (2002). Ugly Malaysians?: South-South Investments Abused. Institute for Black Research. ISBN 978-0-620-28863-7.
  4. "Salil Tripathi". foreignpolicy.com. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  5. Salil Tripathi (19 November 2012). "The Demagogue of Bombay". wsj.com. The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  6. Bhusan, Prashant (7 December 2020). "Prashant Bhusan on Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  7. Guha Thakurta, Paranjoy (7 December 2020). "ParanjoyGuhaThakurta on Twitter". twitter.com. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  8. Ellis-Petersen, Hannah (7 December 2020). "Twitter accused of censoring Indian critic of Hindu nationalism". theguardian.com. The Guardian. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  9. Taskin, Bismee (6 December 2020). "Outrageous, says Salman Rushdie as Twitter suspends journalist Salil Tripathi's account". theprint.in. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  10. "Read: The Poem For His Mother That Got Salil Tripathi Suspended From Twitter". thewire.in. 7 December 2020. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  11. Domini, Annie (8 December 2020). "Twitter India Suspending Salil Tripathi's Account Is an Outrage". theleaflet.in. Retrieved 16 December 2020.
  12. "Outrage at Twitter action". telegraphindia.com. 7 December 2020. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  13. "Salil Tripathi's recent suspension on Twitter raises important questions for the protection of free speech on social media". pen-international.org. Retrieved December 16, 2020.
  14. "Bastiat Prize Winners". Reason Foundation. 20 April 2012. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
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