Tunku Varadarajan is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution

Tunku Varadarajan

Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Fellow in Journalism
Biography: 

Tunku Varadarajan is the Virginia Hobbs Carpenter Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and editor of Hoover’s in-house publication Defining Ideas. A writer-at-large at the Daily Beast, he was a former editor of Newsweek and Newsweek International. Previously, he was executive editor (opinions) at Forbes, assistant managing editor and op-ed editor of the Wall Street Journal, and the New York bureau chief for The Times (of London). Born in India, he is a British citizen. A visiting scholar at New York University's Department of Journalism, he is a former lecturer in law at Trinity College, Oxford. He has also taught at NYU's Stern School of Business, the Graduate School of Journalism at Columbia University, and the City University of New York's Graduate School of Journalism. Varadarajan has a BA in law, with honors, from Oxford University.

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Reverse Swing: The India That Says No

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Indian Express
Sunday, December 6, 2015

In both, cricket and politics, what we were seeing was a species of indignant, nationalist pushback against standards set by the West.

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Reverse Swing: No Cricket With Pakistan

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Indian Express
Sunday, November 29, 2015

I’d be lying if I were to say that I don’t enjoy watching India play Pak. That word — enjoy — is a meager way to describe the feelings that course through millions of Indians when India takes on its westerly neighbor. 

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Reverse Swing: What Paris Tells Us

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Indian Express
Sunday, November 22, 2015

It hardly needs stating, also, that the Islamist terrorists are as brutal to those Muslims who aren’t of a hardline Salafi creed as they are to non-Muslim infidels.

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Reverse Swing – Wanted: A Humble New Modi

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Indian Express
Sunday, November 15, 2015

There’s only one truly pan-Indian leader, Modi, whether we like him or not. The salvation of India rests with him, provided he reforms himself.

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Reverse Swing: Modi’s Governance Is A Lost Opportunity

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Indian Express
Monday, November 9, 2015

India needed a leader of the nation. Instead, it got the leader of a party.

Analysis and Commentary

Reverse Swing: Modi’s Biggest Failure To Date Is One Of Foreign Policy

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Indian Express
Sunday, November 1, 2015

The government has scarred its foreign policy with its stupidity on Nepal.

Analysis and Commentary

Modi In Silicon Valley– By Tunku Varadarajan

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Indo Thai Trade
Saturday, October 31, 2015

Brooklyn-based journalist, former editor of Newsweek Global and International. I watched the year’s best Hindi movie last week,in San Jose, California.

Analysis and Commentary

Five Takeaways On Biden’s Bow-Out

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Politico
Wednesday, October 21, 2015

So the most beguiling soap opera in American politics has come to an end. Joe Biden isn’t going to run for president in 2016. 

Analysis and Commentary

Reverse Swing: A Byte Of Beef

by Tunku Varadarajanvia Indian Express
Sunday, October 18, 2015

The Desi Modi stands in depressing contrast to Modi Abroad.

Analysis and Commentary

Taking One For The Team

by Tunku Varadarajanvia The Wall Street Journal
Monday, October 12, 2015

Bengalis took to soccer out of a hunger for all things British and as a reaction against their disparagement as a ‘non-martial’ people.

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