Atul Aneja is a veteran journalist specializing in foreign affairs. He is the former Editor of India Narrative website, and Strategic Affairs Editor of the Hindu newspaper.
For 17 years, he worked as an international journalist, specializing on China, West Asia, Eurasia and South Asia. Having been posted in Beijing as The Hindu’s Associate Editor (2014-20), he had the rare opportunity to observe up close China’s transition in the Xi-Jinping era, based on extensive field reporting across the length and breadth of that country, including two rare visits to Tibet.
Earlier as the West Asia correspondent for The Hindu, based in Bahrain and Dubai from August 2002-June 1,2014, Atul could live an international journalist’s dream by field reporting the twists and turns of the Arab Spring from Cairo, Benghazi and Tunis. Focusing on conflict zones, he reported the Lebanon war of July/August 2006 between Lebanese Hezbollah and Israel from Beirut, Sidon and Damascus. Before that he covered the Iraq war after the Anglo-American invasion of that country from Baghdad, Najaf, Kirkuk and Arbil in 2003-04. Atul cut his teeth in war reporting by covering the Kargil war (1999) from Kashmir, the situation in Afghanistan from Kabul, Almaty and Dushanbe soon after the 9/11 attacks. He has frequently visited Iran since 1996.
Having an immersive feel of the ground situation across several geographies, Atul now wants to leverage his experiences to promote India’s interests as a civilizational state in Eurasia, China, Southeast and the Global South amid the emergence of a post-Covid world order in a multipolar setting.
He has a M.Phil degree from the School of International Studies (Africa division), Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
