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Sadanand Dhume writes a biweekly column on India and South Asia for WSJ.com. It focuses on the region’s politics, economics and foreign policy.

Mr. Dhume is also a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, DC. Previously, he worked as New Delhi bureau chief of the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER) and as Indonesia correspondent for FEER and the Wall Street Journal Asia.

Mr. Dhume is the author of “My Friend the Fanatic: Travels with a Radical Islamist” (Skyhorse Publishing, 2009), which traces the rise of the radical Islamist movement in Indonesia. His next book will focus on India’s transformation since the election of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014.

Mr. Dhume holds a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Delhi University, a master’s degree in international relations from Princeton University and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife and travels frequently to India.