Snigdhendu Bhattacharya, Journalist

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Curriculum Vitae

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Snigdhendu Bhattacharya

Journalist, Author, Researcher

Date of Birth: 22.06.1985

 

Contacts:

• Permanent Address: 279, Roy Bazar, Post & district – Hooghly, PIN – 712103

• Phone: 9051996369

• Email: snigdhendub@gmail.com

• LinkedIn: https://tinyurl.com/y9ct8wy5

• Work Portfolio: http://snigdhendub.wix.com/snig

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Languages Known:

 English: Speak, Read, Write (Fluent)

 Bengali: Speak, Read, Write (Fluent)

 Hindi: Speak, Read (Working Proficiency)

 

Overview

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Experience In: Covering political, socio-economic, environmental and cultural affairs, and research-based writing, since 2005

Area of Interest: Conflict reporting, Security, History, Environment, Culture, Society

Expertise: Research, Editing, News and Feature Writing, Mobile Journalism, Video Reporting for Digital Platform

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Professional Experience

 

Books

1. Mission Bengal: A Saffron Experiment, HarperCollins India, 2020

2. Lalgarh and the Legend of Kishanji: Tales from India’s Maoist Movement, HarperCollins India, 2016 

 

 

Independent Journalist, Kolkata (July 2020 - Present)

 

Reporting on politics, environment, history, socio-economic and cultural affairs, with bylines in The Wire, Outlook, Huffpost and Mongabay. The reports can be accessed at the work portfolio. 

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Hindustan Times, Kolkata (June 2007 – June 2020)

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 Special Correspondent (2018-20)

 Principal Correspondent (2015-18)

 Senior Reporter (2013-15)

 Staff Reporter (2010-2013)

 Retainer (2007-2010)

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Work Profile and Achievements

 

Political Reporting, Investigative Journalism

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 Extensively covered politics in Bengal, maintaining contacts in all significant political entities in the state - the Trinamool Congress, Bharatiya Janata Party and the Sangh Parivar, the Left and the Congress, as also various small, locally influential political outfits and socio-economic and religious organizations.

 Travelled across the length and breadth of the state to cover political and socio-economic developments and have developed contacts in almost all districts. I have also been closely monitoring and reporting on developments related to Left Wing Extremism, religious fundamentalism, and terrorist activities across India.

 Explored and filed stories on the Saradha Chit Fund scam, Kolkata Port business fiascos, and government decisions on policies. Exposed the fake art racket with a series of investigative stories.

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Feature Writing: Rural Issues, History, Arts and Culture

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 Several dozen reports produced as full-page print articles and for the digital platform.

 Expertly covered issues concerning rural people in Bengal.

 Covered major cultural events across West Bengal. Interviewed Gloria Steinem, Ahdaf Soueif, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Amos Gitai, Tsai Ming Liang, and Perumal Murugan, among others.

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Aajkal, Kolkata (2005-2007)

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District correspondent, Hooghly

Work Profile

 

Political Reporting and Human Interest Stories

 Extensively covered the agitation against land acquisition in Singur for the Tata Nano Plant.

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Other Achievements

• ‘Lalgarh and the Legend of Kishanji – Tales from India’s Maoist Movement’ received positive reviews from Frontline, The Hindu Business Line, The Tribune, The Wire, Scroll.in, Ei Samay (TOI’s Bengali daily) as also from other outlets.  

• Moderated talk session at Kolkata Literary Meet in 2017

• Attended ‘South Asia Media Summit in Goa’ in 2011 as a speaker on India’s Maoist insurgency

• Published numerous fictions in Bengali literary magazines

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Education

• BA (Hons.) in Journalism and Mass Communication, Barrackpore Rashtraguru Surendranath College, University of Calcutta (2006)

• Higher Secondary, Humanities, Hooghly Collegiate School, (2003)

• Secondary (Madhyamik), Hooghly Branch School, (2001)