Sadanand Dhume Explained

Sadanand Dhume
Birth Place:	New Delhi, India
Occupation:	Writer, Journalist
Awards:	Bernard Schwartz Fellow, Asia Society
Website:	http://www.aei.org/profile/sadanand-dhume/

Sadanand Dhume is an American writer and journalist based in Washington D.C. He is the author of My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with a Radical Islamist, a travel narrative about the rise of fundamentalism in Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country.^[1]

In 2007 Dhume was an inaugural Bernard Schwartz Fellow at the Asia Society.^[2]

Dhume is a self-identified atheist.^{[3] [4]}

Publications

• My Friend the Fanatic (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 2009).
• "India Needs Harvard as Well as Hard Work" The Wall Street Journal, October 17, 2019.
• "Pakistan, Stop Coddling Terrorists" The Wall Street Journal, November 29, 2018.
• "India Should Quit Harassing the ‘Super-Rich’," The Wall Street Journal, August 22, 2019.
• "Hindu Supremacism Turns Deadly in Delhi," Wall Street Journal, March 5, 2020.
• "The Dueling Narratives of India’s Kashmir Crackdown," The Atlantic, September 5, 2019.
• "Is India an Ally?" Commentary, January 2008.
• "Sir Salman Rushdie," The Wall Street Journal, June 23, 2007.
• "Playboy in Indonesia," The Wall Street Journal, March 29, 2007.

Notes and References

1. Web site: My Friend the Fanatic by Sadanand Dhume. Australian. textpublishing.com.au.
2. Web site: Bernard Schwartz Fellows Program. Asia Society.
3. News: An Indian atheist takes on the Islamist world in Indonesia. 5 September 2013. The Jakarta Post. 10 August 2008.
4. Book: Dhume, Sadanand. My Friend the Fanatic. 24 September 2013. Westland. 978-93-80283-48-7.