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Sidharth Bhatia has been a journalist for over three decades in the print and electronic media. Starting as a reporter in Bombay during the national emergency, he moved to covering state-level and national politics.

Bhatia was editor of the Bombay edition of The Observer of Business and Politics and then a foreign correspondent in South Africa during the democratic transition in 1993-94. He became chief executive officer of a media company in Mauritius before returning to Bombay in 2005 to join the team that founded Daily News and Analysis.

Bhatia continues to be on the editorial board of DNA and manages the Opinion pages and the Sunday edition, writing a regular signed column and also the leader comments of the paper.

In 2001, Bhatia was made Associate Press Fellow of Wolfson College, Cambridge. He is a regular on several television shows as a commentator on social and political affairs.

Bhatia has taught at several media institutes, including at the well-known social communications media course at Sophia Polytechnic, Mumbai.