For a comprehensive guide to Salil’s work, see: http://www.saliltripathi.com/Welcome.html

Salil’s articles for Mint: https://www.livemint.com/topic/salil-tripathi

Salil’s article for Caravan: https://caravanmagazine.in/author/93

Salil’s books can be found here: The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and Its Unquiet Legacy (2016): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0300218184/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0

Detours: Songs of the Open Road (2015): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01A59F3J8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i1

Offence: The Hindu Case (2009): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1906497389/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i2

You can follow Salil @saliltripathi on Twitter.

Further References

Letter: https://letter.wiki/conversations

The Impossible Conversations competition: https://www.impossibleconversations.info/

The conversation on Antifa and political violence: https://letter.wiki/conversation/59

My accounts of letter exchanges in Areo can be found here: https://areomagazine.com/author/terpsichoral/

Roger Cohen’s article on Kashmir: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/22/opinion/trump-modi-houston.html

Isaac Chotiner’s interview with Roger Cohen: https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/the-times-columnist-roger-cohen-on-the-future-of-india

Salil’s article on the Indian media’s behaviour during conflicts with Pakistan: https://caravanmagazine.in/media/question-journalists-support-for-armed-forces

Modi’s article on Gandhi: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/02/opinion/modi-mahatma-gandhi.html

The Indian Penal Code: https://indiacode.nic.in/handle/123456789/2263?view_type=browse&sam_handle=123456789/1362

Salil Tripathi on M.F. Husain: https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702303714704576383173779641758

M.F. Husain’s work: https://www.wikiart.org/en/m-f-husain Salil on the Modi myth: https://caravanmagazine.in/vantage/minds-modi-myth

Meera Sanyal on demonitisation: https://www.amazon.in/Big-Reverse-Demonetization-Knocked-India/dp/9353023947

Salil’s obituary of Meera Sanyal: https://www.livemint.com/opinion/columns/opinion-lessons-from-an-old-friend-that-india-s-public-life-should-imbibe-1548259689773.html

Salil on whataboutery: https://www.livemint.com/Opinion/5nErFTVfxk0UPN2WT9QpAI/The-role-of-a-writer.html

Rabindranath Tagore’s poem on Indian freedom: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45668/gitanjali-35

Jon Lee Anderson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Lee_Anderson

John Pilger on Cambodia: http://johnpilger.com/videos/year-zero-the-silent-death-of-cambodia

Vajpayee’s speech calling for the destruction of Babri Masjid: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Nvqqx5_Po

Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting (1980)

Timestamps

3:25 Letter and the Impossible Conversations competition 8:45 The portrayal of India in the domestic and international media, esp regarding the situation in Kashmir 14:40 Indian media’s behaviour during conflicts with Pakistan 19:00 Recent coverage of India in the foreign press 23:50 Lynchings and the Modi government 27:40 Trump versus Modi 32:33 Free speech and the Indian penal code 37:00 The Modi myth 43:00 The injustices of Indian bureacracy 46:12 Indian whataboutery 51:32 What inspired Salil to become a journalist 53:10 Salil’s journalistic icons 54:30 The biggest challenges facing journalists today 1:06:42 Salil’s predictions for the future of journalism in India