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Manote Tripathi

Bio: Manote (aka Manoj) Tripathi spent two decades as a journalist, editor and feature writer with a multimedia giant in Thailand before switching his career towards media content production. He’s a trained specialist on Britain. As a journalist at The Nation, Thailand’s national English-language daily, which he joined in 1993, he held senior positions on the paper’s writing side, including leading its highly respected “Sunday Focus” features section known for its authoritative coverage of Thailand. His body of work spans the plight of illegal Burmese migrants in Thailand; corruption; forced prostitution; the problems of once-revered elephants; the rising gap between rich and poor during Thailand’s boom years; the book world; and food and drink. His writings introduced influential thinkers: Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin, golfer Greg Norman, conductor Zubin Mehta, Egyptologist Zahi Hawass, Nobel laureate VS Naipaul and new age guru Deepak Chopra. His coverage of the book world resulted in an array of interviews with such literary titans as Pico Iyer, Patricia Cornwell, William Dalrymple, Simon Winchester, Justin Wintle, and Vikas Swarup of Slumdog Millionaire fame. He spent two years in Yangon, Myanmar, helping The Nation set up the English section of Myanmar’s Eleven Media Group. In 2005, he won a Chevening Scholarship, a UK government scholarship scheme. Manote holds a Master’s in Modern British History (Victoria to Blair) from Royal Holloway, University of London, and a BA in English Literature (Thammasat University, Bangkok).

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