Vishal Arora
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Vishal Arora is a journalist and writer based in New Delhi
India
. He is formerly the Features Editor of The Caravan, a fortnightly journal of politics and culture published from Delhi. Arora writes on politics,religion, culture and foreign affairs in south and south east Asia for national and foreign media. Arora's articles have appeared in Guardian, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, USA Today, Daily Caller, World Politics Review, Foreign Policy in Focus, Hindustan Times
, The Indian Express
, The Deccan Herald, The Tribune
, The Statesman
, Mint, Indo-Asian News Service
, Sify.com, Swagat, The International Indian
(U.A.E), Compass Direct News (U.S.), Religion News Service
(U.S.), and Religious Intelligence (UK).
Arora has reported on hundreds of incidents of communal violence in India, mainly against the Christian minority. Arora was invited as a witness at a Briefing Titled, "the Threat Religious Extremism Poses to Democracy and Security in India: Focus on Orissa", organised by the United States Congressional Task Force on International Religious Freedom on December 10, 2008 in Washington DC.
Arora has also presented papers on the mixing of religion and politics in seminars organised by the Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life in Washington DC.
New Delhi
New Delhi is the capital city of India. It serves as the centre of the Government of India and the Government of the National Capital Territory of Delhi. New Delhi is situated within the metropolis of Delhi. It is one of the nine districts of Delhi Union Territory. The total area of the city is...
India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
. He is formerly the Features Editor of The Caravan, a fortnightly journal of politics and culture published from Delhi. Arora writes on politics,religion, culture and foreign affairs in south and south east Asia for national and foreign media. Arora's articles have appeared in Guardian, The Washington Post, The Huffington Post, USA Today, Daily Caller, World Politics Review, Foreign Policy in Focus, Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded in 1924 with roots in the Indian independence movement of the period ....
, The Indian Express
The Indian Express
The Indian Express is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. It is published in Mumbai by Indian Express Group. After Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split in 1999 among his family members into two with the southern editions taking the name The New Indian Express, while the old...
, The Deccan Herald, The Tribune
The Tribune
The Tribune is an Indian English-language daily newspaper published from Chandigarh, New Delhi, Jalandhar, Dehradun and Bathinda. It was founded on 2 February 1881, in Lahore , by Sardar Dyal Singh Majithia, a public-spirited philanthropist, and is run by a trust comprising five eminent persons as...
, The Statesman
The Statesman
The Statesman is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper founded in 1875 and published simultaneously in Kolkata, New Delhi, Siliguri and Bhubaneswar. The Statesman is owned by The Statesman Ltd., its headquarters at Statesman House, Chowringhee Square, Calcutta and its national...
, Mint, Indo-Asian News Service
Indo-Asian News Service
Indo-Asian News Service or IANS is India's largest private news agency. The IANS is run by a group of professional journalists.The IANS was founded by Indian American publisher Gopal Raju as the India Abroad News Service. It was later renamed the Indo-Asian News Service...
, Sify.com, Swagat, The International Indian
The International Indian
The International Indian is a UAE-based magazine catering to the sizeable Non Resident Indian population in the Gulf countries. Published from Dubai, the magazine is read in the UAE, Oman, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Saudi Arabia. Known in short as TII, the magazine is edited by Frank Raj, who...
(U.A.E), Compass Direct News (U.S.), Religion News Service
Religion News Service
Religion News Service is a news agency about religion, ethics, spirituality and moral issues. Based in Washington, D.C., RNS has a network of correspondents around the world, providing news and information on all faiths and religious movements to the nation's leading newspapers, news magazines,...
(U.S.), and Religious Intelligence (UK).
Arora has reported on hundreds of incidents of communal violence in India, mainly against the Christian minority. Arora was invited as a witness at a Briefing Titled, "the Threat Religious Extremism Poses to Democracy and Security in India: Focus on Orissa", organised by the United States Congressional Task Force on International Religious Freedom on December 10, 2008 in Washington DC.
Arora has also presented papers on the mixing of religion and politics in seminars organised by the Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life in Washington DC.