Siddharthya Roy

Siddharthya Roy is an independent journalist focusing on political strife and insurgencies in South Asia. With an engineering background and years spent coding, he moved to professional journalism in 2011. After earning an MA in politics and global affairs from Columbia University in 2018, he bagged the Pulitzer Centre in Crisis Reporting Grant for his reporting of neo-jihadist groups in South Asia, investigating human trafficking and narco trade in the Rohingya camps. He introduced India’s first data and computational journalism programme at the Symbiosis Institute Of Media and Communication. He splits his time between being a digital nomad and daydreaming of becoming an analogue one.