
Write to me at rahulabhatia@proton.me
I’m a journalist and the author of The New India, a book of narrative reportage about the road to authoritarianism in India and its effects on ordinary citizens. It was named non-fiction book of the year at the Kerala Literature Festival, and was picked by NYT and NPR as a book of the year.
My work has been published in the Guardian Long Read, the New Yorker, the New York Times, Reuters Investigates, Quartz, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, the Caravan, and other places.
I was awarded a Harvard Radcliffe Institute fellowship in 2022-23, won the True Story Award in 2024, and received a Ramnath Goenka Award and a Mumbai Press Club Red Ink Award in 2015.