Basharat Peer

Basharat Peer
Born	1977 Seer Hamdan, Anantnag, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Nationality	Indian
Education	Political Science at Aligarh Muslim University Law at Faculty of Law, University of Delhi Journalism at Columbia University
Occupation	Journalist, Author and Political Commentator Formerly Roving Editor at The Hindu Currently Staff Editor at International Edition of The New York Times
Notable credit(s)	Reporter at Rediff Assistant Editor of Foreign Affairs Currently Editor of India Ink Author of Curfewed Night
Spouse(s)	Ananya Vajpeyi

Journalist, Author and Political Commentator Formerly Roving Editor at The Hindu

Basharat Peer, (born 1977) is an Indian Kashmiri journalist and script writer hailing from Kashmir and currently based in New York. He is also an author and political commentator.

Peer was born in Seer, Anantnag in Jammu and Kashmir. 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, Law at Faculty of Law, University of Delhi, and Journalism at Columbia University. Basharat Peer's father is a retired officer of the Kashmir Administrative Services.

Basharat Peer is married to Ananya Vajpeyi, an academician.

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 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.

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

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