Basharat Peer

Background

Peer was born in Seer, Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir.

Education

He attended school in the valley of Kashmir and continued his education after matriculation in Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh away from his strife-ridden birthplace. He studied Political Science at Aligarh Muslim University and Journalism at Columbia University.

Career

He is also an author and political commentator. Basharat Peer"s father is a retired officer of the Indian Administrative Service. He started his career as a reporter at Rediff and Tehelka.

During the initial days of his career he was based in Delhi.

He has worked as an Assistant Editor at Foreign Affairs and was a Fellow at Open Society Institute, New New York He has written extensively on South Asian politics for Granta, Foreign Affairs, The Guardian, FT Magazine, The New Yorker, The National and The Caravan.

Peer currently runs the "India Ink" blog on the digital edition of The New York Times.

Achievements

• He is the author of Curfewed Night, an eyewitness account of the Kashmir conflict, which won the Crossword Prize for Non-Fiction and was chosen among the Books of the Year by The Economist and The New Yorker.