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	{{Infobox person		{{Infobox person
	\| name = Praveen Swami		\| name = Praveen Swami
	\| birth_date = 1969		\| birth_date = 1969
	\| occupation = ~~journalist~~ and ~~author~~		\| occupation = Journalist and Author
	\| spouse = Nishtha Gautam		\| spouse = Nishtha Gautam
	~~\| nationality = Indian~~
	\| citizenship = Indian		\| citizenship = Indian
	}}		}}
	'''Praveen Swami''' (born 1969) is an Indian journalist and author specialising on international strategic and security issues.<ref name="telegraph1">{{cite web\|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/praveenswami/ \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116190712/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/praveenswami/ \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=2010-11-16 \|title=Opinion \|publisher=Blogs.telegraph.co.uk \|date= \|accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref> He is currently the ~~Group Consulting~~ Editor at [[~~Network18 Group~~]]. He was the Diplomatic Editor of ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' newspaper between September 2010 – October 2011, after which, he became the National Editor (Strategic and International Affairs) of ''[[The Indian Express]]'' newspaper from August 2014- January 2017. Swami is the author of two books on the India-Pakistan conflict in Kashmir.<ref name="telegraph1"/> He was described by the BBC as "one of India's foremost experts of [[Islamism\|Islamist]] terrorism".<ref>{{cite web\|last=Daly \|first=Mark \|url=~~http~~://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi~~/uk_news~~/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7775320.stm \|title=UK \| Scotland \| Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West \| The international trail of terror \|publisher=BBC News \|date=2008-12-16 \|~~accessdate~~=2016-12-01}}</ref>
			'''Praveen Swami''' (born 1969) is an Indian journalist and author specialising on international strategic and security issues.<ref name="telegraph1">{{cite web\|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/praveenswami/ \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116190712/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/praveenswami/ \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=2010-11-16 \|title=Opinion \|publisher=Blogs.telegraph.co.uk \|date= \|accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref> He is currently the National Security Editor at [[ThePrint]].<ref>{{Cite web \|date=2025-05-06 \|title=Praveen Swami's Portfolio \|url=https://authory.com/PraveenSwami \|access-date=2025-05-06 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250506023449/https://authory.com/PraveenSwami \|archive-date=6 May 2025 }}</ref> He was the Diplomatic Editor of ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' newspaper between September 2010 – October 2011, after which, he became the National Editor (Strategic and International Affairs) of ''[[The Indian Express]]'' newspaper from August 2014- January 2017 and the Group Consulting Editor at [[Network18 Group]] between July 2018 - January 2022. Swami is the author of two books on the India-Pakistan conflict in Kashmir.<ref name="telegraph1"/> He was described by the BBC as "one of India's foremost experts of [[Islamism\|Islamist]] terrorism".<ref>{{cite web\|last=Daly \|first=Mark \|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7775320.stm \|title=UK \| Scotland \| Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West \| The international trail of terror \|publisher=BBC News \|date=2008-12-16 \|access-date=2016-12-01}}</ref>

	==Career==		==Career==
	Swami was the Associate Editor of the Indian newspaper ''[[The Hindu]]'' from 1993, for which he reported on topics such as the conflict in [[Kashmir]], the Left-wing Maoist insurgency in India, and Islamic groups.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=~~http~~://www.outlookindia.com/~~article.aspx?~~265400 \|title=~~Archived copy~~ \|access-date=22 February 2013 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/~~20140305095733~~/~~http~~://www.outlookindia.com/~~article.aspx?~~265400 \|archive-date=5 March ~~2014~~ \|url-status=~~dead~~ }}</ref> He reported on Kashmir, [[Punjab, India\|Punjab]] and security issues for much of the 1990s before becoming the [[Mumbai]] bureau chief in 1998. He was appointed as Resident Editor New Delhi, [[The Hindu]] in October 2011. Swami, along with Rural Affairs Editor [[Palagummi Sainath\|P Sainath]], resigned from ''The Hindu'' in mid-2014. 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 2013. Former editor [[Siddharth Varadarajan\|Siddhartha Varadarajan]] and Executive Editor MK Venu were ousted from their positions in October 2013.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bestmediainfo.com/2014/07/another-churn-at-the-hindu-as-praveen-swami-p-sainath-quit/ \|title=Another churn at The Hindu as Praveen Swami & P Sainath quit \| Best Media Info, News and Analysis on Indian Advertising, Marketing and Media Industry \|publisher=Bestmediainfo.com \|date=2014-07-15 \|accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.newslaundry.com/2014/07/16/turmoil-at-the-hindu/ \|title=Newslaundry \|publisher=Newslaundry \|date=2016-01-01 \|accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref>		Swami was the Associate Editor of the Indian newspaper ''[[The Hindu]]'' from 1993, for which he reported on topics such as the conflict in [[Kashmir]], the Left-wing Maoist insurgency in India, and Islamic groups.<ref>{{Cite web \|url=https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/the-rise-of-hindutva-terrorism/265400 \|title=The Rise Of Hindutva Terrorism \|access-date=22 February 2013 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220319143122/https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/the-rise-of-hindutva-terrorism/265400 \|archive-date=19 March 2022 \|url-status=live}}</ref> He reported on Kashmir, [[Punjab, India\|Punjab]] and security issues for much of the 1990s before becoming the [[Mumbai]] bureau chief in 1998. He was appointed as Resident Editor New Delhi, [[The Hindu]] in October 2011. Swami, along with Rural Affairs Editor [[Palagummi Sainath\|P Sainath]], resigned from ''The Hindu'' in mid-2014. 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 2013. Former editor [[Siddharth Varadarajan\|Siddhartha Varadarajan]] and Executive Editor MK Venu were ousted from their positions in October 2013.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.bestmediainfo.com/2014/07/another-churn-at-the-hindu-as-praveen-swami-p-sainath-quit/ \|title=Another churn at The Hindu as Praveen Swami & P Sainath quit \| Best Media Info, News and Analysis on Indian Advertising, Marketing and Media Industry \|publisher=Bestmediainfo.com \|date=2014-07-15 \|accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.newslaundry.com/2014/07/16/turmoil-at-the-hindu/ \|title=Newslaundry \|publisher=Newslaundry \|date=2016-01-01 \|accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref>

	==Awards==		==Awards==
	Praveen Swami has won several awards for his work. He received the Sanskriti Samman Award in 1999 for a series of investigative stories on Indian military and intelligence failures preceding and during the [[Kargil War\|Kargil conflict]]. His work on the Indian army's counter-terrorist operations won him the Prem Bhatia Memorial Award for Political Journalism in 2003.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.hindu.com/2003/08/12/stories/2003081205041100.htm \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012051726/http://hindu.com/2003/08/12/stories/2003081205041100.htm \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=2012-10-12 \|title=Award presented to journalist \|date=2003-08-12 \|work=[[The Hindu]] \|accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref> In 2006, he also won the Indian Express - [[Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards\|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."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130624101454/http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/ramnath-goenka-foundation/2005_winners.html]</ref> Swami was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the [[United States Institute of Peace]] in Washington in 2004–2005.<ref>[https://www.usip.org/publications/2005/03/quickstep-or-kadam-taal-elusive-search-peace-jammu-and-kashmir Quickstep or Kadam Taal?: The Elusive Search for Peace in Jammu and Kashmir], United States Institute of Peace, 13 March 2005.</ref>		Praveen Swami has won several awards for his work. He received the Sanskriti Samman Award in 1999 for a series of investigative stories on Indian military and intelligence failures preceding and during the [[Kargil War\|Kargil conflict]]. His work on the Indian army's counter-terrorist operations won him the Prem Bhatia Memorial Award for Political Journalism in 2003.<ref>{{cite web\|url=http://www.hindu.com/2003/08/12/stories/2003081205041100.htm \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012051726/http://hindu.com/2003/08/12/stories/2003081205041100.htm \|url-status=dead \|archive-date=2012-10-12 \|title=Award presented to journalist \|date=2003-08-12 \|work=[[The Hindu]] \|accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref> In 2006, he also won the Indian Express - [[Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards\|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."<ref>{{cite web \|url=http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/ramnath-goenka-foundation/2005_winners.html \|title=Award Winners \|website=expressindia.indianexpress.com \|access-date=13 January 2022 \|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130624101454/http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/ramnath-goenka-foundation/2005_winners.html \|archive-date=24 June 2013 \|url-status=dead}}</ref> Swami was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the [[United States Institute of Peace]] in Washington in 2004–2005.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20170225014952/https://www.usip.org/publications/2005/03/quickstep-or-kadam-taal-elusive-search-peace-jammu-and-kashmir Quickstep or Kadam Taal?: The Elusive Search for Peace in Jammu and Kashmir], United States Institute of Peace, 13 March 2005.</ref>

	== Bibliography ==		== Bibliography ==

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{{Infobox person
| name = Praveen Swami
| birth_date = 1969
| occupation = journalist and author
| spouse = Nishtha Gautam
| nationality = Indian
| citizenship = Indian
}}
'''Praveen Swami''' (born 1969) is an Indian journalist and author specialising on international strategic and security issues.<ref name="telegraph1">{{cite web|url=http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/praveenswami/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101116190712/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/praveenswami/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2010-11-16 |title=Opinion |publisher=Blogs.telegraph.co.uk |date= |accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref> He is currently the Group Consulting Editor at [[Network18 Group]]. He was the Diplomatic Editor of ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]'' newspaper between September 2010 – October 2011, after which, he became the National Editor (Strategic and International Affairs) of ''[[The Indian Express]]'' newspaper from August 2014- January 2017. Swami is the author of two books on the India-Pakistan conflict in Kashmir.<ref name="telegraph1"/> He was described by the BBC as "one of India's foremost experts of [[Islamism|Islamist]] terrorism".<ref>{{cite web|last=Daly |first=Mark |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7775320.stm |title=UK | Scotland | Glasgow, Lanarkshire and West | The international trail of terror |publisher=BBC News |date=2008-12-16 |accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref>

==Career==
Swami was the Associate Editor of the Indian newspaper ''[[The Hindu]]'' from 1993, for which he reported on topics such as the conflict in [[Kashmir]], the Left-wing Maoist insurgency in India, and Islamic groups.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?265400 |title=Archived copy |access-date=22 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140305095733/http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?265400 |archive-date=5 March 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> He reported on Kashmir, [[Punjab, India|Punjab]] and security issues for much of the 1990s before becoming the [[Mumbai]] bureau chief in 1998. He was appointed as Resident Editor New Delhi, [[The Hindu]] in October 2011. Swami, along with Rural Affairs Editor [[Palagummi Sainath|P Sainath]], resigned from ''The Hindu'' in mid-2014. 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 2013. Former editor [[Siddharth Varadarajan|Siddhartha Varadarajan]] and Executive Editor MK Venu were ousted from their positions in October 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bestmediainfo.com/2014/07/another-churn-at-the-hindu-as-praveen-swami-p-sainath-quit/ |title=Another churn at The Hindu as Praveen Swami & P Sainath quit | Best Media Info, News and Analysis on Indian Advertising, Marketing and Media Industry |publisher=Bestmediainfo.com |date=2014-07-15 |accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.newslaundry.com/2014/07/16/turmoil-at-the-hindu/ |title=Newslaundry |publisher=Newslaundry |date=2016-01-01 |accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref>

==Awards==
Praveen Swami has won several awards for his work. He received the Sanskriti Samman Award in 1999 for a series of investigative stories on Indian military and intelligence failures preceding and during the [[Kargil War|Kargil conflict]]. His work on the Indian army's counter-terrorist operations won him the Prem Bhatia Memorial Award for Political Journalism in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hindu.com/2003/08/12/stories/2003081205041100.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012051726/http://hindu.com/2003/08/12/stories/2003081205041100.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-10-12 |title=Award presented to journalist |date=2003-08-12 |work=[[The Hindu]] |accessdate=2016-12-01}}</ref> In 2006, he also won the Indian Express - [[Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards|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."<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20130624101454/http://expressindia.indianexpress.com/ramnath-goenka-foundation/2005_winners.html]</ref> Swami was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the [[United States Institute of Peace]] in Washington in 2004–2005.<ref>[https://www.usip.org/publications/2005/03/quickstep-or-kadam-taal-elusive-search-peace-jammu-and-kashmir Quickstep or Kadam Taal?: The Elusive Search for Peace in Jammu and Kashmir], United States Institute of Peace, 13 March 2005.</ref>

== Bibliography ==

=== Books ===
* ''An Informal War: India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad in Jammu and Kashmir'' (London: [[Routledge]], 2007)
* ''The Kargil War'' (New Delhi: [[LeftWord Books]], 1999)
* ‘Quick Step or Kadam Taal: The Elusive Search for Peace in Jammu and Kashmir’ (Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace Special Report 133, 2005)

=== Selected articles ===
* ‘Chi tocca il Kashmir muore’, in ''Limes: Pianeta India'' (Rome: Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso, 2009)
* ‘The Transnational Terror Threat to India’, in Satish Kumar (ed.), ''India’s National Security Annual Review, 2009'' (New Delhi: [[Routledge]], 2009)
* ‘India’s and its Invisible Jihad’ in Satish Kumar (ed.), ''India’s National Security Annual Review, 2008'' (New Delhi: KW Publishers, 2008)
* ‘The Well-Tempered Jihad: the Politics and Practice of Post-2002 Islamist Terrorism in India’, in ''Contemporary South Asia'' Volume 16, Issue 3 (September 2008)
* ‘A War to End a War: the Causes and Outcomes of the 2001-2 India-Pakistan Crisis’ in (eds.) Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapoor, ''Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia'' (London: [[Routledge]], 2008)
* ‘Breaking News: India’s Media Revolution,’ in (eds.) Sumit Ganguly, Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner, ''The State of India’s Democracy'' (Baltimore: [[Johns Hopkins University Press]], 2008)
* ‘Lashkar-e-Taiba’ in Wilson John and Swati Parashar, (ed.), ''Terrorism in South-East Asia'' (Singapore: [[Longman]], 2005)
* ‘Failed Threats and Flawed Fences: India’s Military Responses to Pakistan's Proxy War’ in ''The India Review'', Volume 3.2 (London: Frank Cass, 2004)
* ‘Terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, in Theory and Practice,’ in ''The India Review Volume'' 2.3 (London: Frank Cass 2003)
* ‘J & K after 9/11: More of the Same,’ in ''Faultlines XI'', (New Delhi: Institute for Conflict Management, 2002)
* ‘Dialogue with the Hizb: Light in the Tunnel, But is it Dawn or Sunset?’, in ''Faultlines VI'' (New Delhi: Institute for Conflict Management, 2001)
* ‘The Kargil War: Preliminary Explorations’ in ''Faultlines II'', (New Delhi: Institute for Conflict Management, 1999)
* ‘Pro-active after Pokhran: A Perspective on Terrorism in J & K,’ in ''Faultlines I'', (New Delhi: Institute for Conflict Management, 1998)

== References ==
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==External links==
* Praveen Swami column in ''[[The Indian Express]]'' [http://indianexpress.com/profile/author/praveen-swami/]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130317104845/http://spaces.brad.ac.uk:8080/display/ssispsru/Mr+Praveen+Swami Biography of Praveen Swami] as it previous was on the [[University of Bradford]] website; via [[Archive.org]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101116190712/http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/praveenswami/ Biography of Praveen Swami] on the website of the ''Telegraph''

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