Stanly Johny-The Hindu

Stanly Johny is the International Affairs Editor with The Hindu. He has a Ph.D. in International Studies from the Centre for West Asian Studies, JNU, New Delhi, and anchors the paper’s international coverage, besides writing editorials, Op-Eds and other reportage. He has been writing on geopolitics and Indian foreign policy for over a decade and has reported from different parts of the world. His first book, The ISIS Caliphate: From Syria to the Doorsteps of India, was published in April 2018, and the second book (co-authored), The Comrades and the Mullahs: China, Afghanistan and the New Asian Geopolitics, was published in March 2022. His latest book is Original Sin: Israel, Palestine and the Revenge of Old West Asia. He is a Visiting Professor at KREA University, Sri City, Andhra Pradesh, an adjunct faculty at Asian College of Journalism (ACJ), Chennai, and a Visiting Fellow at Kerala University, Thiruvananthapuram.