Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay

Nilanjan Mukhopadhyay is best known for reportage and analysis on the rise of Hindu organisations, their politics, and agitations which he has tracked since the 1980s. While The RSS: Icons of The Indian Right (2019) is his latest publication, his earlier book The Demolition: India at the Crossroads (1994) was among the first on the Ayodhya discord and the rise of Hindutva. Narendra Modi: The Man, and The Times (2013) and Sikhs: The Untold Agony of 1984 (2015) are his other publications. He writes columns for several newspapers and web portals, and is a familiar face on television news and video channels as commentator and host.