Rahul Pandita is a journalist who is known for his reporting from war-torn areas. He is the author of Hello, Bastar: The Untold Story of India’s Maoist Movement; Our Moon has Blood Clots: A Memoir of a Lost Home in Kashmir; The Lover Boy of Bahawalpur: How the Pulwama Case was Cracked; and is the co-author of The Absent State: Insurgency as an Excuse for Misgovernance. He received the International Red Cross Award for conflict reporting in 2010. He is a Yale World Fellow and also the recipient of the New India Foundation Fellowship. He lives in Delhi.