Josy Joseph

About Me

Josy Joseph, an award-winning writer and journalist based in New Delhi, is the founder of Confluence Media, a platform-agnostic investigative journalism outfit. His first book, A Feast of Vultures: The Hidden Business of Democracy in India, won the 2017 Crossword Award for the best non-fiction book.

My Story

Personal Life

Josy Joseph investigates this decline and comes away with a key insight: that the process of confronting militancy has warped the system. As insurgencies erupted across India, and grew increasingly more sophisticated in the 1980s and ’90s, the security establishment struggled to keep up. Increasingly overwhelmed, the police forces, intelligence agencies, federal investigation agencies, tax departments and the like came up with ingenious—at times sinister—solutions: from faking and framing evidence to staging massive terror attacks and even creating terrorist organisations. Over time, militancy became a flourishing, multi-faceted businss enterprise.

Awards

The Prem Bhatia Memorial Trust

2011: The Prem Bhatia Memorial Trust[21] selected Josy Joseph for ‘Outstanding Political Reporting of The Year[22]’, for a series of investigative reports, including the Adarsh scam, several corrupt decisions in organising the Commonwealth Games, etc.

Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards

2013: In July, he was also awarded the prestigious “Journalist of the Year (Print)” for 2010 at the Sixth Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards.

International Leaders Programme

2014: Joseph was the only Indian selected by the British government to the International Leaders Programme, organised by its Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

MP Anil Kumar Memorial Achiever Award

2015: In December, Joseph was honoured by his alma mater – Sainik School, Kazhakootam – with the Late Fg Offr MP Anil Kumar Memorial Achiever Award for his career accomplishments

Crossword Book Award

2018: In January, Joseph’s book A Feast of Vultures, was named the best book for 2017 by the jury in the non-fiction category of the Crossword Book Award.[26] The competing entries included books by Amitav Ghosh, Pradeep Damodaran, Pankaj Mishra, and Shashi Tharoor. While announcing the prize, the jury said: “This is a book about the truth about our nation. It confirms what we already suspect and shocks us further by unraveling the workings of the Indian system.”

Madhyamasree Puraskaram

2019: Recipient of India Press Club of North America’s Madhyamasree Puraskaram

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