Amit Varma (writer)


Amit Varma is a writer and podcaster based in Mumbai.
In 2008, his first novel My friend, Sancho was nominated to the longlist for the Man Asian Literary Prize 2008. In April 2009, he was named by BusinessWeek magazine in its India's 50 Most Powerful People 2009 list, for his blog India Uncut.

Career

Amit Varma has worked in advertising, television and journalism, and has written for publications like The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal and Wisden Cricketers' Almanack. He was a Managing Editor of Cricinfo India and now works as a consultant for them.
He has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the Observer and almost every Indian publication. He is currently a columnist for the Times of India, Bloomberg Quint and Cricket Next.
The editor of , an online magazine, Amit Varma also hosts a popular podcast, The Seen and the Unseen, on public policy, economics and behavioural science.

Awards

In October 2007, Varma won the 2007 Bastiat Prize for Journalism, which aims to honor writers "whose work cleverly and wittily promotes the institutions of the free society". He won the prize again in 2015.