Abhishek Choudhary

Abhishek Choudhary is a bilingual writer, best known for his two-part study of former Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee and the Hindu Right. His work has been featured and reviewed in leading South Asian and international publications and shortlisted for several awards, with the first volume winning the 2023 Tata Literature First Book Award. He studied economics in Delhi and Chennai and previously worked in non-profits and journalism. A fellow of the New India Foundation and a grantee of the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, he is currently a Gates Scholar in history at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge.