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Praveen Swami is Diplomatic Editor of The Daily Telegraph, London, and writes on international strategic and security issues. He was earlier Associate Editor of The Hindu, for which he reported on the conflict in Jammu and Kashmir, the Maoist insurgency in India, and Islamist groups.

Career

He reported on Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, and security issues for much of the 1990s before becoming Mumbai bureau chief in 1998. Swami also served as a producer for an independent television network, where he worked on projects related to terrorism in Punjab.

Awards

He has won several awards for his work. He received the Sanskriti Samman award in 1999 for a series of investigative stories on Indian military and intelligence failures preceding and during the Kargil War. His work on the Indian Army's counterterrorist operations won him the Prem Bhatia Memorial Award for Political Journalism in 2003. In 2006, he also won the Indian Express-Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism prize.

Swami was a Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington, D.C. in 2004-2005.

He has occasionally contributed to also occasionally writes for the New Delhi-based South Asia Intelligence Review.

Controversy

Jamia Teachers’ Solidarity Association, a New Delhi based organization of teachers and students criticized Swami for his reporting on the Batla House encounter case. In their detailed critique of Swami, the JITSA claimed that his report on Batla House Encounter Case was wrong and the postmortem report of the slain terrorists released by India's premier medical institute AIIMS, suggested that encounter was staged. However, the Delhi High Court did not support these contentions. Delhi High court has already rejected demands of human right groups to conduct judicial inquiry of the encounter claiming that it may demoralize security personnel.

Bibliography

• An Informal War: India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad in Jammu and Kashmir (London: Routledge, 2007).
• The Kargil War, (New Delhi: Left Word, 1999).
• ‘Chi tocca il Kashmir muore’ , in Limes: Pianeta India (Rome: Gruppo Editoriale L’Espresso, 2009).
• ‘The transnational terror threat to India’, in Satish Kumar (ed.), India’s National Security Annual Review, 2009 (New Delhi: Routledge, 2009)
• ‘India’s and its invisible jihad’ in Satish Kumar (ed.), 'I'ndia’s National Security Annual Review, 2008 (New Delhi: KW Publishers, 2008).
• ‘The Well-Tempered Jihad: the politics and practice of post-2002 Islamist terrorism in India’, in ‘Contemporary South Asia’ Volume 16, Issue 3 (September 2008).
• ‘A war to end a war: the causes and outcomes of the 2001-2 India-Pakistan crisis’ in (eds.) Sumit Ganguly and S. Paul Kapoor, Nuclear Proliferation in South Asia (London: Routledge, 2008)
• ‘Breaking News: India’s Media Revolution,’ in (eds.) Sumit Ganguly, Larry Diamond and Marc F. Plattner, The State of India’s Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008).
• ‘Lashkar-e-Taiba’ in Wilson John and Swati Parashar, (ed.), Terrorism in South-East Asia (Singapore: Longman, 2005).
• ‘Quick Step or Kadam Taal: The Elusive Search for Peace in Jammu and Kashmir’ (Washington DC: United States Institute of Peace Special Report 133, 2005).
• ‘Failed Threats and Flawed Fences: India’s Military Responses to Pakistan's Proxy War’ in 'The India Review', Volume 3.2 (London: Frank Cass, 2004).
• ‘Terrorism in Jammu and Kashmir, in Theory and Practice,’ in 'The India Review Volume' 2.3 (London: Frank Cass 2003).
• ‘J&K after 9/11: More of the Same,’ in 'Faultlines XI', (New Delhi: Institute for Conflict Management, 2002).
• ‘Dialogue with the Hizb: Light in the Tunnel, But is it Dawn or Sunset?’, in 'Faultlines VI' (New Delhi: Institute for Conflict Management, 2001).
• ‘The Kargil War: Preliminary Explorations’ in 'Faultlines II', (New Delhi: Institute for Conflict Management, 1999).
• ‘Pro-active” after Pokhran: A Perspective on Terrorism in J&K,’ in 'Faultlines I', (New Delhi: Institute for Conflict Management, 1998)

References

1. http://www.hardnewsmedia.com/2010/03/3496
2. Indian Express August 29 2009, Batla House encounter: HC rejects plea for judicial inquiry

External links

• Biography of Praveen Swami on the University of Bradford-site

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