Amit Varma is a
writer
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and
podcast
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er based in
Mumbai
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.
In 2008, his first novel ''My friend, Sancho'' was nominated to the longlist for the
Man Asian Literary Prize 2008. In April 2009, he was named by ''
BusinessWeek'' magazine in its India's 50 Most Powerful People 2009 list, for his blog ''India Uncut''.
Career
Amit Varma has worked in
advertising
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,
television
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and
journalism
Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (profes ...
, and has written for publications like ''
The Guardian
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'', ''
The Wall Street Journal
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'' and ''
Wisden Cricketers' Almanack
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''. He was a Managing Editor of
Cricinfo
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India. The editor o
Pragati an online magazine, Amit Varma also hosts a podcast, ''The Seen and the Unseen'', on public policy, economics and behavioural science.
Awards
In October 2007, Varma won the 2007
Bastiat Prize for Journalism, which aims to honor writers "whose work cleverly and wittily promotes the institutions of the free society". He won the prize again in 2015.
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Bastiat Prize
The Bastiat Prize was a journalism award given annually by the Reason Foundation. In 2011 and before it was given by the International Policy Network. The Bastiat Prize recognized journalists whose published works "explain, promote and defend the ...
(2007, 2015)
See also
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List of Indian writers
References
External links
Official Website*
India Uncut
The Seen and the Unseen
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Writers from Mumbai
Indian male journalists
Indian bloggers
Indian sportswriters
Indian columnists
Living people
Indian classical liberals
English-language writers from India
Bastiat Prize winners
Male bloggers
Year of birth missing (living people)