Salil Tripathi is an American author and editor. He is Chair of

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's Writers in Prison Committee. He is a contributing editor to ''

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''. and

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Biography

Tripathi was born in Mumbai. He was educated at the New Era School in Mumbai and graduated from the

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of the

University of Bombay The University of Mumbai is a collegiate, state-owned, public research university in Mumbai. The University of Mumbai is one of the largest universities in the world. , the university had 711 affiliated colleges. Ratan Tata is the appointed ...

. Tripathi obtained his MBA from the

Amos Tuck School of Business Administration The Tuck School of Business (also known as Tuck, and formally known as the Amos Tuck School of Administration and Finance) is the graduate business school of Dartmouth College, a private research university in Hanover, New Hampshire. Founded i ...

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in the United States.

Career

Tripathi's articles have appeared in ''

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'', ''

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'', '' The Far Eastern Economic Review'', and ''

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''.

Books

* ''Offence: The Hindu Case'' * ''The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and its Unquiet Legacy'' * ''Detours: Songs of the Open Road''

2020 Twitter suspension

In December 2020, Tripathi's Twitter account was suspended.

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was among the writers who criticized Twitter for this decision.

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, ''Encyclopædia Britannica''

, Suketu Mehta, Prashant Bhusan, Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, Aakar Patel, and

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also criticized Twitter's decision. PEN International also criticized Twitter's suspension of Tripathi's account and urged Twitter to have more transparent policies.

Awards

Tripathi received the

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(third place) in 2011.

References

External links

Salil Tripathi on Twitter

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