Shyam bhartia biography

British war journalist

Shyam Bhatia (born ) is an Indian-born British journalist, writer and war reporter based in London.^[1][2] He has reported from conflict zones such as the Middle East, Afghanistan and Sudan, and is a former diplomatic editor of The Observer.^[3] He has also served as US correspondent and Foreign Editor of the Bangalore-based Deccan Herald and Editor of Asian Affairs magazine in London.^[4]

Bhatia was educated at The Doon School in India and Leighton Park School in England before going to the University of Oxford.^[5][6] A contributor to The Times, Mail on Sunday, Politico, Deccan Herald and The Citizen, he is also a columnist for the Indian Express.^[7] He has published several books based on his war reporting, and a political biography of the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto (who was his contemporary at Oxford).^[8][9] In , he won the F