Mysuru: Mysore Open Forum (MOF) has organised a talk on ‘Trials & Tribulations of War Reporting in the Middle East’ by renowned journalist Shyam Bhatia at 10.30 am on Sept. 29 at Kalpa Kshetra Auditorium, #581/1, Vijayanagar 4th Stage, 1st Phase, Mysuru.

The talk is open to all. For details, contact Mob: 94498-19536.

Shyam Bhatia is a New Delhi-born journalist, writer and war reporter based in London. He has reported from conflict zones such as the Middle East, Afghanistan and Sudan, and is a former diplomatic editor of The Observer. He has also served as US correspondent and Foreign Editor of the Bengaluru-based Deccan Herald and Editor of Asian Affairs magazine in London.

He  was educated at The Doon School in India and Leighton Park School in England before going to the University of Oxford. A contributor to The Times, Mail on Sunday, Politico, Deccan Herald and The Citizen, he is also a columnist for the Indian Express.

He has published several books based on his war reporting and a political biography of the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto (who was Bhatia’s contemporary at Oxford).

In 1993, he won the Foreign Reporter of the Year for his coverage of the suffering of the Marsh Arabs in Southern Iraq. His May 2021 keynote interview about the spread of COVID with Dr. Jerome Kim of the International Vaccine Institute was published by The Wire and broadcast on YouTube.