Krithika Varagur
Krithika Varagur is a writer and editor in New York. She is the author of The Call: Inside the Global Saudi Religious Project, about Saudi missionary activity in the Muslim world. She spent several years as a foreign correspondent, primarily in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, writing for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, and more. She won the Front Page Award for Foreign Correspondent of the Year in 2020. She has been an editor at and contributor to The Drift magazine since it launched in 2020, and has also been a National Geographic Explorer, a Fulbright Scholar, an Amtrak writer-in-residence, and a fellow at the Leon Levy Center for Biography. She writes essays and reportage for outlets including the London Review of Books and Harper’s. She is currently working on a history book about the Princesses Duleep Singh for Penguin Press (US) and Viking (UK).