Career
The Guardian"s Comment is Free website named him as their blogger of the year in 2006. Hundal has also written for publications including The Guardian, The Financial Times and The Independent. He is currently a journalist-in-residence at Kingston University.
Hundal has founded and edited a number of politically progressive websites: Liberal Conspiracy, a group weblog about politics and media, Asians in Media, Barfi Culture community websites, the Pickled Politics weblog, and the New Generation Network in 2006, a group and manifesto that attempted to challenge the current discourse on race relations in the United Kingdom. All these have been wound up.
In February 2007 he made a British Broadcasting Corporation radio documentary Lost in Translation about Asian brides brought to the United Kingdom. The British Broadcasting Corporation also quoted his claim that Shahrukh Khan"s endorsement of skin-lightening creams was "completely immoral". In 2008, he wrote a blog post saying that non-white voters should consider voting Conservative, on the basis that "brown people" were being deliberately targeted by anti-terrorism legislation brought in by the New Labour government of Gordon Brown.
About three months after the formation of the Coalition Government, Hundal joined the Labour Party in order to influence its political direction. In August 2010 Hundal backed Editor Miliband in the Labour leadership election.
He has been awarded the Fourth IRDS Awards for Print Media for fighting against religious obscurantism, awarded by the Lucknow-based Institute for Research and Documentation in Social Sciences (IRDS).
A vegetarian, he describes himself as a strong environmentalist.
