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The 2007 Bernard Schwartz Fellows
 Sadanand Dhume is a journalist and writer with a longstanding interest in Asia. My Friend the Fanatic, his book on the rise of radical Islam in Indonesia, will be published in the summer of 2008.
As a former Indonesia correspondent of the Far Eastern Economic Review and The Asian Wall Street Journal in Jakarta, Sadanand covered Indonesia's economics, politics, and society. Before that he was the New Delhi bureau chief of FEER.
Sadanand has also written for The Wall Street Journal, YaleGlobal, Foreign Policy, and Harvard International Review among others. He has worked as an associate producer for MSNBC on the Internet and as a journalist in New Delhi and in Santiago, Chile. He has been interviewed by the BBC, VOA, and CNBC Asia, and has spoken about political Islam, Indonesia, and India at Princeton University, Yale University, and at various think tanks in America, Asia, and Australia.
Sadanand holds a master's degree in international relations from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School, a master's degree from Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism, and a bachelor's from Delhi University. He is based at the Asia Society's Washington center, where he writes mainly about political Islam and economic development in Asia.
Recent Articles and Appearances
Talk: "Indonesia: A Model for Tolerant Islam?" (Washington DC, September 19, 2007)
Review: Frontline Pakistan by Zahid Hussain, Far Eastern Economic Review (September 2007)
Interview: Inside Indonesia's Islamic Schools, Al Jazeera English (August 21, 2007)
Interview: Freedom of Speech in Southwest Asia, Voice of America (August 11, 2007)
India's Tough Choice on Iran, The Washington Post (August 11, 2007)
Jakarta Casts Its Vote, The Wall Street Journal Asia, (August 10, 2007)
Step Up the Fight Against Islamism, Far Eastern Economic Review (July/August 2007)
Sir Salman Rushdie, The Wall Street Journal (June 23, 2007)
AsiaSource Interview with Sadanand Dhume (New York, May 10, 2007)
Malaysia Backpedals on Modernity, YaleGlobal Online (May 03, 2007)
Review: Building Moderate Muslim Networks by RAND Corporation, Far Eastern Economic Review (May 2007)
Talk: "The Politics of Islam in Indonesia" (Washington DC, April 16, 2007)
Playboy in Indonesia, The Wall Street Journal (March 29, 2007)
Talk: "Political Islam in Asia" (New York, March 20, 2007)
Talk: "Combating Political Islam in Asia" (Houston, February 2, 2007)
Review: Islamic Imperialism by Efraim Karsh, Far Eastern Economic Review (January/February 2007)
Interview: Political Islam in Indonesia and Turkey, Voice of America (December 30, 2006)
Review: In the Line of Fire by Pervez Musharraf, Far Eastern Economic Review (November 2006)
Indonesia’s Promise, The Wall Street Journal (November 20, 2006)
Asia's Fickle Elites, ABC News International (September 22, 2006)
 Pramit Pal Chaudhuri is the Foreign Editor of The Hindustan Times and a leading figure in Indian policymaking circles. He was previously an editorial writer for The Telegraph and The Statesman of Calcutta.
Pramit has a BA in history from Cornell University. More recently, he was a Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow at the University of Maryland - College Park; media fellow at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy; South Asia fellow at the Henry Stimson Centre in Washington DC, and a Visiting Fellow at Cornell University's South Asia department. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society, the Liberty Institute of New Delhi and the Aspen Institute Italia.
Pramit has written widely on India's foreign and international economic policies. He is a regular talking head on Asian television and radio stations. This year he has spoken at the Aspen Institute World Economy Conference, the Centre of Independent Studies annual consilium in Australia and at Singapore's Institute for Southeast Asian Studies.
Pramit is based in Asia Society's New York headquarters. The focus of his work will be U.S.-India relations, India’s role in a globalizing world, and the role of technology and innovation in the new Asia.
Recent Articles and Appearances
AsiaSource Interview with Pramit Pal Chaudhuri (New York, May 10, 2007)
Talk: "India: The Decisive Decade" (Washington DC, March 28, 2007)
China Outplays Taiwan in Cricket Diplomacy, ABC News International (March 26, 2007)
It's all very kosher, Hindustan Times (March 11, 2007)
Indian BPOs feeding 419 scamsters, Hindustan Times (March 9, 2007)
US tries to find means to stop 419 fraud, Hindustan Times (March 8, 2007)
India an emerging market for Nigerian fraudsters, Hindustan Times (March 7, 2007)
The Indian advantage, Hindustan Times (February 19, 2007)
Wheels within wheels, Hindustan Times (February 1, 2007)
Why the Taliban Thrive in Pakistan, ABC News International (January 23, 2007)
India Not Out of the Nuclear Wilderness, ABC News International (December 18, 2006)
Man who fought world, was also blind to India, The Hindustan Times (December 5, 2006)
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