Sanjoy Hazarika is an author, journalist, filmmaker and professor. He is the author of Bhopal: The Lessons of a Tragedy, Writing on the Wall: Reflections on the North-East and Rites of Passage, among other critically acclaimed books. Hazarika has been a consulting editor for the Statesman, and has previously worked for Associated Press and the New York Times, as well as a research professor at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. Hazarika is the international director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) and a former member of India’s National Security Advisory Board.