is a senior journalist who has been with broadcast television for 20 years, 17 of which he spent at New Delhi Television (NDTV) where he was a Resident Editor covering conflict in India’s North-East as well as in the Maoist corridor. At NDTV he also launched the multimedia convergence, NDTV Online and the network’s website beside producing the first live breakfast show, Good Morning India. He is a regular columnist and speaker on conflict and post-conflict situations in India. He is also a Master Trainer in conflict reporting. Mr. Bhattacharjee is the recipient of the Ramnath Goenka Award (2006-2007), India’s highest journalism award which he was awarded for his coverage of internally displaced people, a Panos Fellow for HIV/AIDS (2007) and an Edward Murrow Fellow in Journalism (2006).His coverage of the abduction and rescue of two Italian tourists was nominated under best current affairs programme by Association of International Brodcasting (AIB) Awards in 2013. He has made several documentaries one of which, Santi, Lucy and Thoibi was screened at international festivals in Goa and Barcelona. Kishalay Bhattacharjee was selected Chair of Internal Security and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses (IDSA) in 2011. Che in Paona Bazaar: Tales of Exile and Belonging in India’s Northeast (Pan Macmillan, 2013) is Kishalay’s debut non-fiction work. He has earlier published nonfiction in anthologies like First Proof (Penguin) and The Prize Stories: Best In The Indian News Business 2006-2007(Roli) Kishalay is currently working on his new book and writes regularly on media and politics.