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Samrat Choudhury a.k.a. Samrat X is a journalist and author from Shillong, India. He is a former editor of broadsheet newspapers in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Chandigarh. His first novel, The Urban Jungle, was published by Penguin Books in 2011.

He was one of the two editors, along with Preeti Gill, of an anthology titled Insider Outsider on this divide in India’s Northeast, which was published by Amaryllis in 2019.

Samrat has also authored several short stories, essays, and a graphic novella which was turned into a play, Strange Lines, with an international cast, and staged at the National School of Drama in Delhi. Some of his works have appeared in translation in German, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian.

A former columnist for The Hindustan Times and DNA, he now writes OpEds and occasional reports for a range of publications. His journalistic writings have appeared in the Dhaka Tribune in Bangladesh, The Japan Times in Japan, The New York Times online, and The Hindu, Mint, Economic Times, The Indian Express, The New Indian Express, The Asian Age, India Today, Outlook, Caravan, National Geographic Traveller and Open among others, in India. He was the Asian Leadership Fellows Programme fellow from India at the International House of Japan in Tokyo in 2018. He is also a Chevening South Asia Journalism programme alumnus[9] from the University of Westminster in London. His graduate degree is in electrical engineering.

References/Notes and references
1.https://www.amazon.in/Urban-Jungle-Samrat/dp/0143415794

2.http://manjulindia.com/amaryllis/insider-outsider-dhkars-chinkies-role-revarsals-writings-from-the-northeast-of-india.html

3.https://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/insider-outsider-belonging-and-unbelonging-in-north-east-india-review-displacement-diaries/article26544144.ece

4.http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/comic-capers/562971/0

5.https://www.indiatoday.in/magazine/leisure/story/20091026-book-reality-check-741053-2009-10-15

6.https://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/13/in-indias-northeast-peace-and-foreign-ties-quietly-spread/?searchResultPosition=1

7.https://www.japantimes.co.jp/opinion/2018/10/26/commentary/japan-commentary/third-modi-visit-tokyo-reflects-deepening-japan-india-ties/#.XPz_XIgzbIU

8.https://jfac.jp/en/culture/projects/asia-leadership-fellow-program/

9.https://www.chevening.org/fellows/sajp-fellows