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| caption = Karnad in 2019
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| education = [[Swarthmore College]]<br />[[St. Cross College, Oxford University]]
| occupation = Journalist, writer
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| father = [[Girish Karnad]]
| notable_works = ''Farthest Field – An Indian Story of the Second World War''
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'''Raghu Karnad''' is an [[India]]n journalist and writer, and a recipient of the [[Windham–Campbell Literature Prize]] for Non-Fiction.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://windhamcampbell.org/festival/2019/recipients/karnad-raghu|title=Raghu Karnad|date=March 12, 2019|publisher=Windham–Campbell Literature Prizes|accessdate=March 13, 2019}}</ref> He is the author of ''Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War''<ref>{{cite news|last1=Winchester|first1=Simon|title=India's Second World War: the history you don't hear about|url=https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2015/07/indias-second-world-war-history-you-dont-hear-about|accessdate=13 May 2017|work=New Statesman|date=9 July 2015|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Mukherjee|first1=Neel|title=‘Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War,’ by Raghu Karnad|url=https://www.ft.com/content/59342720-0a17-11e5-a6a8-00144feabdc0|accessdate=13 May 2017|work=The Financial Times|date=5 June 2015|language=en}}</ref> which was shortlisted for the [[Hessell-Tiltman Prize]] for 2016, and was awarded the [[Sahitya Akademi]] Yuva Puraskar for a writer in English the same year.<ref>{{cite news|title=Raghu Karnad's book shortlisted for Hessell-Tiltman Prize|url=http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/raghu-karnad-s-book-shortlisted-for-hessell-tiltman-prize-116030200709_1.html|accessdate=12 June 2017|work=Business Standard India|date=2 March 2016}}</ref> His articles and essays have won international awards including the [[Lorenzo Natali Journalism Prize]] in 2008, the [[Press Institute of India]] National Award for Reporting on the Victims of Armed Conflict in 2008, and a prize from the inaugural [[Financial Times]]-[[Bodley Head]] Essay Competition in 2012.

Karnad was previously the editor of ''[[Time Out (magazine)|Time Out]]'' Delhi. He is the son of late [[Girish Karnad]]. He has also contributed articles to ''[[The New Yorker]]'', ''[[The Atlantic]]'', ''[[Granta]]'' and ''[[The Guardian]]''.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/the-coronavirus-offers-a-radical-new-vision-for-indias-cities-pollution|title=The Coronavirus offers a Radical New Vision for India's Cities|last=Karnad|first=Raghu|date=2020-04-13|access-date=2020-05-13|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/in-kashmir-indian-democracy-loses-ground-to-millennial-militancy|title=In Kashmir, Indian Democracy Loses Ground to Millenial Militancy|last=Karnad|first=Raghu|date=2019-05-22|access-date=2020-05-13|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/the-diverging-paths-of-two-young-women-foretell-the-fate-of-a-tribe-in-india|title=The Diverging Paths of Two Young Women Foretell the Fate of a Tribe in India|last=Karnad|first=Raghu|date=2018-09-07|access-date=2019-12-26|last2=Datto|first2=Arko|language=en|issn=0028-792X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/12/sonia-rahul-gandhi-india-modi-bjp-congress-nehru/548522/|title=Sonia Gandhi Leaves the Stage|last=Karnad|first=Raghu|date=2017-12-16|website=The Atlantic|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://granta.com/the-ghost-in-the-kimono/|title=The Ghost in the Kimono|date=2015-03-04|website=Granta Magazine|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/21/confessions-of-a-killer-policeman-india-manipur|title=Confessions of a killer policeman {{!}} Raghu Karnad and Grace Jajo|last=Karnad|first=Raghu|date=2016-07-21|work=The Guardian|access-date=2019-12-26|last2=Jajo|first2=Grace|language=en-GB|issn=0261-3077}}</ref> In 2015, he was part of the founding team of ''[[The Wire (India)]]'', and later held the position of Chief of Bureau in New Delhi.<ref name="mint">{{cite news|last1=Choudhary|first1=Vidhi|title=Former editor of ‘The Hindu’ to launch news website|url=http://www.livemint.com/Consumer/hh3F4srDSuGG7aQaQWqckL/Former-editor-of-The-Hindu-to-launch-news-website.html|accessdate=12 June 2017|date=8 May 2015}}</ref>

He was a student at [[Swarthmore College]], and he spent a semester at the American University of [[Cairo]] and managed to get a meeting with [[Yassar Arafat]].<ref>https://www.swarthmore.edu/past-commencements/charge-to-raghu-karnad</ref> In 2019, he was one of the writers invited to the Neilson Hays Bangkok Literature Festival.<ref> {{Cite web|url=https://www.prestigeonline.com/th/pursuits/art-culture/3-dynamic-cultural-festivals-take-over-bangkok-from-october-to-december/|title=3 Dynamic Cultural Festivals Take Over Bangkok from Oct - Dec 2019|date=2019-10-23|website=Prestige Online|language=en-US|access-date=2019-12-26}} </ref>

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book|last1=Karnad|first1=Raghu|author-mask=0|title=Everybody’s Friend|isbn=978-1448181650}}
* {{cite book|last1=Karnad|first1=Raghu|author-mask=0|title=Farthest Field – An Indian Story of the Second World War|isbn=978-0008133238}}

==References==
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==External links==
* [https://literaryreview.co.uk/reluctant-allies Review] of ''Farthest Field'' by [[John Keay]] on [[Literary Review]]
* [https://www.npr.org/2015/08/22/433515258/in-wwii-millions-of-indians-fought-for-a-britain-they-abhored Interview] on [[NPR]]

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