Kishalay Bhattacharjee's Mother Smt. Sobhona Bhattacharjee is a retired teacher and writer. Father Sri Kamana Krishna Bhattacharjee, retired head of department, History, St. Edmund's College, Shillong and author of Making of North East India.
Education
Mr. Bhattacharjee completed his schooling from the St. Edmund's School, Shillong and completed a bachelor's course in English from St. Edmund's College, Shillong. He then went to North Eastern Hill University, Shillong for M.Phil coursework.
Career
Bhattacharjee worked for seventeen years at New Delhi Television, as a Resident Editor. He reported on several conflicts during this time, including northeast India and Maoist corridor. He is currently a Professor and Associate Dean at the O.P Jindal Global University. He is also the founder- director of the Reachout Foundation, which works to defy stereotypes, fight prejudice and eliminate discrimination.
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Kishalay Bhattacharjee is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean in the School of Journalism and Communication at OP Jindal Global University, Sonipat, Haryana. His books include Che in Paona Bazaar: Tales of Exile and Belonging from India's Northeast, Blood on My Hands: Confessions of Staged Encounters and most recently An Unfinished Revolution: A Hostage Crisis, Adivasi Resistance and the Naxal Movement. He was the recipient of the first and only Penguin Random House Writer's Residency Award in 2016. Besides covering conflict and post conflict stories, over the years Bhattacharjee has documented child soldiers in India, wildlife crime, narcotic trade, human trafficking and natural and man made disasters. His journalistic work on the Northeast of India is a resource that most media and academic organisations draw from.
Awards and recognition
Nominated by Association of International Broadcasting AIB Awards, London for best current affairs programme, 2013 Penguin Random House Writers Residency Award Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism, 2006 -2007 Panos Fellowship for HIV/AIDS, 2007 Edward Murrow Fellow for Journalism, 2006 Best Journalist Award, Assam and Meghalaya 2004 Videocon Award for Television Excellence, 1994 Presented papers at Heildelberg University, Germany 2013, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Singapore 2011, Jamia Millia Islamia 2011 and 2013 and University of Southern California, 2006. Moderated several roundtables in India and the US on media, strategic studies and writing He was Chair of Internal Security and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in 2011.
