Siddharth Varadarajan (b. 1965) is a leading Indian journalist and editor of Gujarat: The Making of a Tragedy.He has reported on the NATO war against Yugoslavia, the destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, the war in Iraq and the crisis in Kashmir. He now works for The Hindu.\n\nAfter 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.\n\nIn 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. \n\nGujarat: The Making of a Tragedy, edited by Varadarajan, contains accounts of the violence against the Muslims of that province of India. The book was published by Penguin Books in 2002.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddharth_Varadarajan