Anupreeta Das

Anupreeta Das is a South Asia correspondent for The New York Times, covering India and its neighbors including Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Based in New Delhi, she writes primarily about India with the aim of explaining India to the world and exploring the differences between how India sees itself and how the world sees it. Her reporting is influenced by her experiences of having spent more than two decades as a reporter and editor, being born in India, attending school there and in Britain and the U.S., as well as spending a year in Canada on a public leadership fellowship. She has also worked at The Wall Street Journal as the deputy business editor before joining The Times as finance editor, directing their Wall Street coverage. Das is the author of 'Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King: Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World' which uses the evolving image of Bill Gates to examine bigger themes such as the influence of billionaires on society, philanthropy and culture. In addition to her professional pursuits, Das enjoys hiking and summited Mount Kilimanjaro, which she considers one of her proudest moments. As a Times journalist, she is committed to upholding the standards of integrity outlined in their Ethical Journalism Handbook by being accurate and fair, verifying information from multiple sources, protecting the identity of sources who put themselves at risk to share sensitive information with her, giving people the opportunity and time to respond to her reporting before a story is published, not accepting money, gifts or favors from anyone who might figure into her reporting and introducing herself as a reporter for The Times when reaching out to people. She can be contacted via email or on LinkedIn. Her latest work includes a news analysis on the protests in Bangladesh triggered by the reinstatement of a quota system for government jobs, which revealed broader resentment about the uneven distribution of wealth and opportunity.