Sadanand Dhume

{{Short description|American journalist}}

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Sadanand Dhume is an American writer and journalist based in Washington D.C.

In 2007 Dhume was an inaugural Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society.{{cite web|url=http://asiasociety.org/about/people/fellows/schwartz07|title=Bernard Schwartz Fellows Program|work=Asia Society|date=24 July 2017 }}{{primary inline|date=February 2025}} He is a senior fellow in Foreign and Defense Policy at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research.{{cite web|url=https://www.aei.org/our-scholars/?policy-area=foreign-and-defense-policy|title=AEI Foreign and Defense Scholars|work=American Enterprise Institute}}{{cite web |title=Sadanand Dhume |url=https://www.aspenideas.org/speakers/sadanand-dhume |publisher=Aspen Ideas Festival |website=Aspen Institute |access-date=9 June 2025 |quote=Sadanand Dhume is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and was previously the Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society.}}

Dhume is a self-identified atheist.{{cite news|title=An Indian atheist takes on the Islamist world in Indonesia|url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2008/08/10/an-indian-atheist-takes-islamist-world-indonesia.html|accessdate=5 September 2013|newspaper=The Jakarta Post|date=10 August 2008}}{{cite book|author=Dhume, Sadanand|title=My Friend the Fanatic|date=2009 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_J4VaRUeuLQC&pg=PT2|accessdate=24 September 2013|publisher=Westland|isbn=978-93-80283-48-7}}

In February 2025, after US President Donald Trump stated that the US will own Gaza and the population removed without the option of returning, Dhume suggested in a Wall Street Journal op-ed that, it is possible for all Palestinians to be relocated from Gaza, similar to how it happened during the partition of India.{{Cite web| last = Dhume| first = Sadanand| title = Opinion {{!}} If Indians and Pakistanis Can Relocate, Why Can't Gazans?| work = WSJ| access-date = 2025-02-13| date = 2025-02-12| url = https://www.wsj.com/opinion/if-indians-and-pakistanis-can-relocate-why-cant-gazans-refugees-displacement-palestinians-39d7678c}}