Tunku Varadarajan is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution

Tunku Varadarajan

Biography: 

Tunku Varadarajan was the Hoover Institution's institutional editor and editor-in-chief of Hoover’s in-house publication Defining Ideas. He was previously a research fellow at Hoover and the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Fellow in Journalism.  A writer-at-large at the Daily Beast, he was a former editor of Newsweek and Newsweek International. Previously, he was executive editor (opinions) at Forbes, assistant managing editor and op-ed editor of the Wall Street Journal, and the New York bureau chief for The Times (of London). Born in India, he is a British citizen. A visiting scholar at New York University's Department of Journalism, he is a former lecturer in law at Trinity College, Oxford. He has also taught at NYU's Stern School of Business, the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism. Varadarajan has a BA in law, with honors, from Oxford University.

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Reverse Swing: Modi Is Not Trump, Trump Is Not Modi

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Indian Express
Sunday, February 14, 2016

One is a political freak, the other a self-made leader with a vision for his country. The comparisons are amusing, but utterly facile.

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Reverse Swing: Racist Bangalore, Racist India

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Indian Express
Sunday, February 7, 2016

Indians need to take drastic action to end racism against black Africans. We can’t be behaving like animals toward foreigners in our country.

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Reverse Swing: Europe’s Cultural Nightmare

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Indian Express
Sunday, January 31, 2016

There’s a galloping sense of ‘buyer’s remorse’, as the Old Continent wakes up to the truth that it has taken on a mass of people who cannot be assimilated. 

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Reverse Swing: My ‘Anti-National’ Brother

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Indian Express
Sunday, January 24, 2016

How free is India? The country boasts of its democracy, often with reason. India’s record of regular elections is enviable, especially when one considers its political and linguistic diversity, the size of its population, and its shameful levels of education. We can all agree that the country gets the formal mechanics of democracy right — against heavy odds.

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Reverse Swing: Five Lessons From Pathankot

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Indian Express
Sunday, January 10, 2016

What India must do—and not do—in its war against terrorists.

Analysis and Commentary

Reverse Swing: Christmas In The Ummah

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Indian Express
Sunday, December 27, 2015

The hypocrisy of the Islamic world is laid bare once more.

Analysis and Commentary

Jyoti Singh: Let’s Say It Aloud, Again And Again

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Indian Express
Sunday, December 20, 2015

As Nirbhaya, Jyoti became a symbol of civic convenience that fit with Indian society’s patriarchy. We know her name. Let’s say it aloud, again and again.

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The India We Hate And Love

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Indian Express
Sunday, December 13, 2015

All that makes and breaks the country — faith to family, politics to media.

Analysis and Commentary

Reverse Swing: The India That Says No

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Indian Express
Sunday, December 6, 2015

In both, cricket and politics, what we were seeing was a species of indignant, nationalist pushback against standards set by the West.

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Reverse Swing: No Cricket With Pakistan

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Indian Express
Sunday, November 29, 2015

I’d be lying if I were to say that I don’t enjoy watching India play Pak. That word — enjoy — is a meager way to describe the feelings that course through millions of Indians when India takes on its westerly neighbor. 

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