Salil Tripathi is on the board of PEN International and was the chair of its Writers in Prison Committee from 2015 to 2021. He has been a foreign correspondent in Singapore and Hong Kong and now lives in New York. He is an award winning journalist whose articles have appeared in many international publications, and is contributing editor the Caravan and a columnist at Mint. He is also senior advisor at the Institute for Human Rights and Business.

His books include Offence: The Hindu Case; The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and its Unquiet Legacy and Detours: Songs of the Open Road. He is currently working on a book about Gujaratis. His essays and poems have appeared in anthologies. He was educated at the University of Bombay and Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College.