Sidharth Bhatia

Sidharth Bhatia is a Mumbai-born journalist and writer. He has been in the media, print and electronic, for over four decades. He is a founding editor of The Wire. Earlier, Sidharth was of the original team that launched the Mumbai-based Enlish daily DNA. He has written three books—Cinema Modern: The Navketan Story (2011), Amar Akbar Anthony: Masala, Madness, Manmohan Desai (2013) and India Psychedelic: The Story of a Rocking Generation (2014). Mumbai: A Million Islands (2025) is his fourth book. He tweets at @bombaywallah.