Rohan Venkataramakrishnan

About

Rohan Venkat (Rohan Venkataramakrishnan) is a journalist, researcher and editorial consultant, based in Cairo, Egypt. He is currently Managing Editor at the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania. At CASI, Rohan designs editorial strategy for the center’s publications, while also commissioning and editing pieces for India in Transition, a bi-weekly scholarly publication with a wide international readership. He also runs an interview series entitled ‘CASI Deep Dives’, taking the insights of scholars and authors working on India to a wider audience. Rohan was a CASI Spring 2024 Visiting Fellow. He writes India Inside Out (rohanvenkat.substack.com), a newsletter on Indian politics, foreign policy, history, and more, read by more than 9,000 India watchers around the world, including diplomats, academics and domain experts. Rohan also co-hosts the Political Cycle, a weekly podcast tracking political developments in India, the UK, the US and beyond, which began as The Election Tricycle, a podcast that sought to put the 2024 elections taking place all over the year in conversation with each other. Previously, Rohan was a Deputy Editor at Scroll.in, an award-winning independent digital news organization, having been a member of the founding team. Over eight years in the organisation, he worked across a number of different teams, from news to video to audience engagement. He also wrote regularly about Indian politics, foreign policy, economic affairs, and history. While at Scroll.in, Rohan wrote a twice-weekly newsletter called the Political Fix. He was also an Editorial Consultant at the Centre for Policy Research, one of India's premier think tanks. At CPR, Rohan ran an interview series called CPR Perspectives, offering in-depth conversations with members of the centre’s faculty across a wide-range of subjects from climate change to urban policy to welfarism and political science.Previously, Rohan worked at Mail Today, a newspaper from the India Today Group, where he wrote and reported for the City and Political reporting teams before being put in charge of the Comment pages at the age of 24.Rohan is an alumnus of the University of Southern California, where he was awarded the Herb Klein Scholarship in Government and Political Reporting. He was born in Bombay, grew up in Doha and spent over a decade in journalism in Delhi.