Victor Mallet

About

Author and journalist. Most recent book is River of Life, River of Death: The Ganges and India's Future (Oxford University Press), published in October 2017. https://victormallet.org for details.Victor Mallet is a journalist, commentator and author with three decades ofexperience in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. His highly praised book on the south-east Asian industrial revolution and the 1997-98Asian financial crisis, The Trouble with Tigers (HarperCollins), was first published in1999. His book about the Ganges, River of Life, River of Death: The Gangesand India's Future was published by Oxford University Press in October 2017. Victor Mallet has written numerous editorials, columns and features on security,politics, economics and business. He twice won the Society of Publishers in Asia(Sopa) award for opinion writing. In India, he was twice awarded the RamnathGoenka Award for Excellence in Journalism as a foreign correspondent, once for afeature about the rise of Narendra Modi and later for a magazine article on the RiverGanges.