Salil Tripathi is an Indian author and editor. He is Chair of PEN International's Writers in Prison Committee. He is a contributing editor to The Caravan.^[1] and Mint.^[2] He is a contributing advisor to the think tank, Bridge India since June 2019. ^[3][4]

Tripathi was born in Mumbai. He was educated at the New Era School in Mumbai and graduated from the Sydenham College of the University of Bombay.^[5] Tripathi obtained his MBA from the Amos Tuck School of Business Administration at Dartmouth College in the United States.^{[citation needed]}

Tripathi's articles have appeared in Foreign Policy,^[6] The Wall Street Journal,^[7] The Far Eastern Economic Review, and The International Herald Tribune.

• Offence: The Hindu Case
• The Colonel Who Would Not Repent: The Bangladesh War and its Unquiet Legacy
• Detours: Songs of the Open Road

In December 2020, Tripathi's Twitter account was suspended.^[why?] Salman Rushdie was among the writers who criticized Twitter for this decision. Shashi Tharoor, Amitav Ghosh, Suketu Mehta, Prashant Bhusan,^[8] Paranjoy Guha Thakurta,^[9] Aakar Patel, and Nilanjana Roy also criticized Twitter's decision.^{[10][11][12][13][14]}

PEN International also criticized Twitter's suspension of Tripathi's account and urged Twitter to have more transparent policies.^[15]

Tripathi received the Bastiat Prize (third place) in 2011.^[16]

• Salil Tripathi on Twitter
• Salil Tripathi website