Nirmal Ghosh

Bio: Nirmal Ghosh is the US Bureau Chief in Washington DC for The Straits Times, Singapore’s and South East Asia's #1 English daily. Born and raised in Calcutta, India, of mixed German-Indian parentage, Nirmal moved to New Delhi in 1982 and then Singapore in 1991 after a decade of working for various media houses in India including Ananda Bazar Patrika and The Times of India. Among other things, he has covered elections, insurgencies, urban conflict, natural disasters, and coups d’etat, across South and South East Asia. He has written extensively as well on climate change and environmental issues. He has written five books including Unquiet Kingdom (2017), an account of his years in Thailand, which was shortlisted that year for Singapore’s National Book Prize. His most recent Blue Sky, White Cloud, a collection of three novellas, was published in India (Aleph Books) in 2022. Nirmal writes poetry and in 2021-22 had a collaborative bilingual English-Chinese poetry installation titled Wild Cranes, featuring his own poetry translated into Chinese, which ran for six months at the Chinese-American Museum in Washington DC. That was followed by a week’s run in early 2022, at The Arts House in Singapore. Ghosh is a Trustee of The Corbett Foundation, a non-profit that works for wildlife conservation in India. 

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