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'''Sumon K Chakrabarti''' was the Chief National Correspondent of [[India]]’s largest [[English language|English]] news network, [[CNN-IBN]], of which he is also a founder employee. Now he is working on a book on South Asia.

==Career==
He is one of India’s top [[Investigative journalism|investigative journalists]], with the credit of ‘breaking’ several [[government corruption]]s at the highest level. It was his investigative story featuring the report of the Chief Vigilance Commission, India's top vigilance watch-dog, that pointed to corruption at every level in the organization of the upcoming Commonwealth Games to be held in New Delhi, that started the entire controversy and resultant probe. He broke one of the biggest stories in Indian journalism in January 2006; the story of how the Indian government had moved to [[London]] to defreeze the accounts of Italian middleman Ottavio Quattrocchi, prime accused in the Bofors Arms Deal scam.

He received the Eurasian-Nets Fellowship of 2009 to travel and research on minority issues in [[France]]. The [[research]] culminated in a full-length paper entitled: ‘Media, Minorities and the Politics of Integration in France’.

Chakrabarti was among the only two international journalists allowed in [[Maldives]] in 2006 to film the [[democracy]] movement for the first time, where he interviewed a wide cross-section of [[politician]]s, including [[Asia]]’s longest ruling [[leader]] [[Mamoon Abdul Gayoom]], opposition [[activist]]s, editors, [[journalist]]s, intellectuals, [[human rights]] activists and [[police officer]]s.

He moved to CNN-IBN after working for nearly three years with [[NDTV India|NDTV]], India’s first English news network. Before that he had worked for leading media houses like [[India Today]] (where he was also part of the team that created TheNewspaperToday.com - India’s first [[e-newspaper]]), [[Indo-Asian News Service]] (IANS), and [[The Asian Age]]. Chakrabarti reports on conflicts, politics, governance and government corruption. Specialising on India’s [[Maoist]]s ([[Naxalite]]s), the [[insurgency]]-ridden North-East of India and the violence in [[Kashmir]], he is also considered as a proficient journalist in his reporting on India’s neighbours like [[Bangladesh]], [[Burma]], [[Nepal]], [[Bhutan]] and the Maldives. He has also worked extensively on people [[Internal displacement|internally displaced]] as a result of political conflicts.

Chakrabarti also writes articles on regional security issues regularly for one of India’s leading national news and opinion magazines, [[The Week]]. He also writes opinion pieces in leading Indian dailies like The [[Hindustan Times]] and [[The New Indian Express]].

His report on “Bangladesh: The Shift in the Balance of Terror in South Asia”, published in 2006 International Assessment and Strategy Centre, USA, in many ways put Bangladesh on the global [[Terrorism|terror]] map.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2009/08/090828_thespark_nh_sl.shtml|title=BBC World Service - News - The Spark: the moment when politics first matters|website=www.bbc.co.uk}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://assamnet.org/pipermail/assam_assamnet.org/2009-February/022211.html|title=[Assam] Fwd: PRESS RELEASE:(CNN-IBN)- Bangladesh Minister to CNN-IBN - Anup Chetia to be handed over}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20081028235843/http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/author/52/sumonkchakrabarti.html Sumon K Chakrabarti's Blog - CHAKRAVIEW: IBNlive.com]</ref><ref>[http://week.manoramaonline.com/cgi-bin/MMOnline.dll/portal/ep/theWeekContent.do?sectionName=Business&contentId=7562735&programId=1073754899&pageTypeId=1073754893&contentType=EDITORIAL The Week]</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1993298,00.html|title=Who Was Really Behind India's Terrorist Derailment?|first=Sumon K.|last=Chakrabarti|date=June 1, 2010|via=content.time.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.punjabnewsline.com/content/view/19812/38/|title=Punjab News | Breaking News | Latest Online News}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1985339,00.html|title=Behind India's Bust of a Pakistan Spy|first=Sumon K.|last=Chakrabarti|date=April 28, 2010|via=content.time.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1981122,00.html|title=Massacre Prompts Debate Over India's Maoist War|first=Sumon K.|last=Chakrabarti|date=April 12, 2010|via=content.time.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2009/08/090828_spark7_nh_sl.shtml|title=BBC World Service - News - Listen to Sumon K Chakrabarti}}{{deadlink|date=July 2019}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110715235816/http://publication.samachar.com/pub_article.php?id=346010]</ref><ref>[http://www.southasiamonitor.org/2008/oct/news/28indpr.shtml]{{deadlink|date=July 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2009/02/21/all0365.htm|title=ITTEFAQ.COM|website=nation.ittefaq.com}}</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20100615062645/http://ibnlive.in.com/blogs/sumonkchakrabarti/2710/61861/fancy-pants-with-lofty-dreams.html SumonK Chakrabarti's Blog : Fancy pants with lofty dreams]</ref>

==Awards and honors==
He was nominated for “Best Indian Journalist of the Year” for the [[Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards]] (2006) and Indian Television Awards (2008).

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