Rahul Bhatia is an award-winning writer and investigative journalist. He is the author of ‘The Identity Project: The Unmaking of a Democracy’, a narrative non fiction work on religion, identity, citizenship and politics in contemporary India, which was shortlisted for the Godrej Literature Live! Non-Fiction Book of the Year award in 2025.
His writing has appeared in major leading international and national publications. He has been a member of Reuters' global investigations team and his investigations into technology have been studied at several universities. He is also a co-founder of the Peepli Project, a nonprofit journalism initiative. A former art director, Rahul Bhatia studied communication design at Pratt Institute in New York. He was a fellow at Harvard University's Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.