Siddharth Varadarajan (born 1965) is the Strategic Affairs Editor of the Indian newspaper, The Hindu and editor of Gujarat: The Making of a Tragedy. He has reported on the NATO war against Yugoslavia, the destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq and the crisis in Kashmir. He is also The Hindu's Chief of its National Bureau, succeeding Harish Khare who was named as Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's media adviser in June 2009. In 2007, he was a visiting professor at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley and in 2009, he was a Poynter Fellow at Yale University
After studying economics at the London School of Economics and Columbia University, he taught at New York University for several years before joining The Times of India as an editorial writer in 1995. In 2004, he joined The Hindu, India's leading English-language newspaper, as Deputy Editor.
In November 2005, the United Nations Correspondents Association awarded him the Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize Silver Medal for Print Journalism for a series of articles, Persian Puzzle on Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency.[3] In March 2006, he was awarded the Bernardo O'Higgins Order by the President of Chile—that country's highest civilian honor for a foreign citizen—for his contributions to journalism and to the promotion of India's relations with Latin America and Chile.
Varadarajan is a member of the International Founding Committee of The Real News[5], a board member of the B.P. Koirala India-Nepal Foundation , a member of the Indian Council of World Affairs and member of the editorial board of India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs
Some Recent Articles Posted by him are as follows;
