Jaideep Hardikar

Jaideep Hardikar is a Nagpur-based independent journalist, researcher and writer. In his career spanning nearly 25 years, he has worked with several English newspapers, including The Telegraph as their Central India correspondent. He is a Core Team member and Roving Reporter with the People's Archive of Rural India (PARI).

A former Asia Leadership Fellow at Tokyo, Japan, (2015) and Alfred Friendly Press Fellow in 2009 during which he worked with Sun Sentinel newspaper in South Florida, he has been a winner of coveted national and international awards and fellowships, including the Prem Bhatia memorial award and Sanskriti Award for Journalism.

Widely travelled, Hardikar's journalism appears in many national and international publications, in print and digital forms, including BBC/Southasia, Scientific American, Livemint, The Hindu Businessline, The Wire, and The Telegraph, among others.

His interests range from agrarian economy to Commons to collectives and international affairs. He is a visiting faculty at several journalism schools in India and is associated with the Asia Center at the Monash University, Australia, as a researcher under Emeritus Professor Antonia Marika Vicziany.

Hardikar has a Master's in Sociology and a post graduate degree in Mass Communication.

He is the author of two books: 'Ramrao' (HarperCollins2021) and 'A village awaits doomsday' (Penguin, India, 2013).

In 2021, he received the New India Foundation fellowship to research his next book on the Rise and Fall of Empress Mills, the first Tata venture in Nagpur.