Vishal Arora
Vishal Arora is a journalist, writer, photojournalist, and videographer, based in New Delhi, India. He is a founder and was the editor of StoriesAsia, a "new media" organization that works through a collective of journalists from South and Southeast Asia. He resigned from StoriesAsia in January 2021. He used to be the Features Editor of The Caravan, a fortnightly journal of politics and culture published from Delhi, and an editor at Indo-Asian News Service. Arora writes on politics, religion, culture, human rights and foreign affairs in south and south east Asia for national and foreign media. Arora is particularly known for his coverage of Bhutan, Nepal, Burma, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and the Maldives. Arora's articles have appeared in The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Nikkei Asian Review, The Diplomat, The Huffington Post, USA Today, Daily Caller, World Politics Review, Foreign Policy in Focus, Hindustan Times, The Indian Express, The Deccan Herald, The Tribune, The Statesman, Mint, Indo-Asian News Service, Sify.com, , (UAE), (U.S.), Religion News Service (U.S.), and (UK).
Arora has reported on hundreds of incidents of communal violence in India, mainly against the Christian minority. Arora was invited as a witness at a briefing titled, "the Threat Religious Extremism Poses to Democracy and Security in India: Focus on Orissa", organised by the United States Congressional Task Force on International Religious Freedom on December 10, 2008 in Washington DC. Arora has also presented papers on the mixing of religion and politics in seminars organised by the Oxford Centre for Religion and Public Life in Washington DC.[1]
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