Dr. Hindol Sengupta is an award-winning author of nine books. He has been a senior journalist with leading publications and broadcasters in India. He is the only Indian to have won the prestigious Wilbur Award given by The Religion Communicators Council of America. He  has won the PSF Prize for public service in India. 

Hindol has been Senior Fellow at the Centre for Civil Society and the Observer Research Foundation. He studied South Asian history and politics at Oxford University and business and finance at Columbia University. He has a doctorate in international relations from the Geneva School of Diplomacy and International Relations.