Sushanta Talukdar

Sushanta Talukdar has 30 years of experience of covering India’s Northeast region for local and national dailies. Formerly, a Senior Assistant Editor of The Hindu, he is currently the Editor, nezine.com- a bilingual online magazine on Northeast, and a regular contributor to FRONTLINE on political happenings, conflict situation, development, environment, and governance issues in the region. Prior to his association with The Hindu, he also covered Assam and neighbouring states for The Telegraph, The Northeast Daily, The Eastern Clarion and The Northeast Times. He visits Tezpur University and Cotton University regularly and Gauhati University and Don Bosco University occasionally to interact with students of journalism and mass communications to help them sharpen their storytelling skills. A recipient of Parag Kumar Das Journalism award, he took part in the 9th Bangladesh China India Myanmar (BCIM) forum in Kunming in China and India Bangladesh Studies in Dhaka in 2011. He was the Principal Investigator of the Research project on “Assam at the crossroads of deepening India-Bhutan engagement: Realignment of policy regimes for cross-border trade and Border Area Development Programme” sanctioned by the Centre for Southeast Asian Studies, Gauhati University.