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Sadanand Dhume

Sadanand Dhume

Columnist, The Wall Street Journal

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Sadanand Dhume writes a biweekly column on India and South Asia for WSJ.com. He focuses on the region’s politics, economics and foreign policy.

Mr. Dhume is also a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. Previously he worked as the New Delhi bureau chief of the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER), and as Indonesia correspondent for FEER and The Wall Street Journal Asia.

Mr. Dhume is the author of “My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with a Radical Islamist,” (Skyhorse Publishing, 2009), which charts the rise of the radical Islamist movement in Indonesia. His next book will look at India’s transformation since the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014.

Mr. Dhume holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from the University of Delhi, a master’s degree in international relations from Princeton University and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife, and travels frequently to India.

Articles

East is East

Bangladesh’s Bad Election Choice

December 28, 2018 01:30 pm ET

The governing Awami League has delivered economic progress but not democracy. The opposition has problems of its own.

East is East

Pakistan, Stop Coddling Terrorists

November 29, 2018 11:40 pm ET

A decade after the Mumbai bombings, the attackers are still free. One top jihadist even ran for office.