Samanth Subramanian
{{Short description|Indian writer and journalist}}
Samanth Subramanian is an Indian writer and journalist based in London. He studied journalism at Penn State University and international relations at Columbia University. In 2018–19, he was a Leon Levy Fellow at the City University of New York. He is also a regular contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Guardian and WIRED.
Author
Subramanian's first book Following Fish: Travels Around the Indian Coast (2010, Penguin Books India) was a travelogue about Indian fisheries and seafood cuisine.
His second book This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan Civil War (2015, Atlantic Books, {{ISBN|978-0857895950}}) was nominated for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Royal Society of Literature's Ondaatje Prize.{{Cite web|url=https://us.macmillan.com/author/|title=Samanth Subramanian {{!}} Authors {{!}} Macmillan|website=US Macmillan|language=en-US|access-date=2020-03-29}} He became only the second Indian writer after Suketu Mehta to be nominated for this prestigious award for literary non-fiction.{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2015/09/22/samuel-johnson-prize_n_8174650.html |title=Samanth Subramanian Becomes The Second Indian To Be Longlisted For The Samuel Johnson Prize |work=HuffPost|date=September 22, 2015|access-date=May 6, 2016}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.dw.com/en/sri-lanka-a-divided-island-forever-dw-speaks-to-samanth-subramanian/av-52368366|title=Sri Lanka: A 'divided island' forever? – DW speaks to Samanth Subramanian {{!}} DW {{!}} 13.02.2020|website=DW.COM|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-03-29}} William Dalrymple, writing in The Guardian, considered it a remarkable and moving portrayal of the agonies of the conflict that "will stand as a fine literary monument against the government’s attempt at imposed forgetfulness".{{cite web | url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/mar/09/this-divided-island-stories-from-sri-lankan-war-review-moving-portrayal-samanth-subramanian | title=This Divided Island: Stories from the Sri Lankan War review – a moving portrayal of the agonies of the conflict | work=The Guardian | date=March 9, 2015 | access-date=May 6, 2016 | author=Dalrymple, William}}
His third major work, A Dominant Character: The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane (2019) is a biography of J. B. S. Haldane.{{Cite web|url=https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/samanth-subramanian-jbs-haldane-biography-a-dominant-character_in_5e357ddbc5b611ac94d54e94|title=Samanth Subramanian: 'You Don't Need To Be Apolitical To Be Scientifically Objective'|date=2020-02-02|website=HuffPost India|language=en|access-date=2020-03-29}} The book has been selected as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2020 by The New York Times.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/books/notable-books.html
|title=100 Notable Books of 2020
|work=The New York Times
|date=12 December 2020
|access-date=December 16, 2020}}
His articles cover a wide variety of subjects ranging from land reclamation in Singapore{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/20/magazine/how-singapore-is-creating-more-land-for-itself.html|title=How Singapore Is Creating More Land for Itself|work=The New York Times|access-date=September 6, 2022}} to Tamil pulp fiction.{{cite news|url=https://www.livemint.com/Consumer/DouhBrEC92MzywjXnjMeFP/Meet-Rajesh-Kumar-author-of-1500-novels.html|title=Meet Rajesh Kumar, Author of 1500 Novels|work=Live Mint|access-date=September 6, 2022}}
He has written about the synthesis of new chemical elements for Bloomberg Businessweek.{{cite web|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-08-28/making-new-elements-doesn-t-pay-just-ask-this-berkeley-scientist|title=Making New Elements Doesn’t Pay. Just Ask This Berkeley Scientist|author=Samanth Subramanian|publisher=Bloomberg Businessweek|website=bloomberg.com|date=28 August 2019|accessdate=21 April 2024}}
In April 2024, in the run-up to India's general elections, Subramanian wrote a profile of Rahul Gandhi in The New York Times Magazine covering Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Yatra, Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, and other topics.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/20/magazine/rahul-gandhi-india-election-bjp.html|title=Time Is Running Out for Rahul Gandhi’s Vision for India|author=Samanth Subramanian|website=nytimes.com|publisher=The New York Times|date=20 April 2024|accessdate=21 April 2024}}
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External links
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- [https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/samanth-subramanian Samanth Subramanian] on The New Yorker
- [https://www.theguardian.com/profile/samanth-subramanian Samanth Subramanian] on The Guardian
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Category:Indian male journalists
Category:21st-century Indian writers
Category:Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications alumni