Sushant Singh

Sushant Singh is an Indian journalist who is the Consulting Editor at The Caravan magazine in New Delhi. He co-founded The India Cable, a daily newsletter from India and is a columnist for The Telegraph (Kolkata) and The Morning Context. His work has recently appeared in many global publications, including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Walrus, Kiev Independent, and Tagesspiegel. He was earlier the Deputy Editor of The Indian Express newspaper in India where he covered strategic affairs and national security. In 2018 and 2019, he was awarded the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism.

 

Sushant was a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Policy Research in India from 2020 to 2024. He was a visiting lecturer at Yale in Fall 2019 and the Henry Hart Rice Fellow in Fall 2021, returning as a lecturer in 2023. A former Indian military officer with two decades of uniformed service, he has worked as an Observer with the United Nations in Cote d’Ivoire. He is the author of “Mission Overseas: Daring Operations by the Indian Military” and the co-author of “Note by Note: The India Story 1947-2017”. He is currently working with Steven Wilkinson on a new book on India’s changing defense structure.