Dipankar Ghose

India

MSc Modern South Asian Studies, 2025 
St Antony’s College
Funding: Oxford-Weidenfeld and Hoffmann 

Dipankar Ghose is an award-winning Indian journalist who reports on a wide range of issues such as justice and human rights, communal conflict and insurgencies, natural disasters, and contemporary politics. He is a three-time recipient of India’s top journalism prize, the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism. He also won the 2020 Prem Bhatia Memorial Award for Political Journalism.

Dipankar is now the Deputy National Editor of Hindustan Times, India’s second-largest English newspaper, a role in which he leads a group of over 40 correspondents from across the country, driving daily news reportage, ideating investigations, and anchoring long-form writing into issues that shape the world’s largest democracy. He plans to leverage his programme at Oxford to hone his storytelling and leadership skills. Dipankar aims to build a sustainable and diverse newsroom that is both rich in perspective and nuance, but also global in its reach and outlook.