Siddharth Varadarajan, an LSE alumnus, is a journalist and a founding editor of The Wire, a news publication that reimagines the media as a joint venture in the public sphere between journalists, readers, and a concerned citizenry. A former editor of The Hindu, he has also worked for the Times of India, and has reported on the NATO war against Yugoslavia, the war in Iraq and the crisis in Kashmir, the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas in Afghanistan, amongst much else. After completing his Phd at Columbia University, he taught economics at New York University, and has also taught journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Gujarat: The Making of a Tragedy (2002).