Edmond Roy

Edmond Roy
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Edmond Roy began his journalism career in the southern Indian state of Kerala in the early 1980's with the government broadcaster, All India Radio. From there he made his way up to the eastern city of Hyderabad to work as a reporter for the now defunct newspaper Newstime. Hired as a local reporter by the ABC’s New Delhi office in 1988, he moved to Australia to work with Radio Australia in Melbourne. He returned to New Delhi as the ABC’s South Asia correspondent in 1996. Some of the networks he has worked for include, the BBC, CBC, NPR, CBS and Radio Austria. 

He was presenter of the Asia-Focus program on ABC TV, reporter for Lateline and ABC Radio before taking on the role of Executive Producer of the PM program. He retired from the ABC last year. 

A Woodrow Wilson scholar, Edmond is author of Australian Uranium and India: Ideology, Pragmatism & Politics. An avid South Asia watcher, these days Edmond can be spotted surfing somewhere on the New South Wales North coast. 

An Afghan test leaves Australia’s principles wanting
An Afghan test leaves Australia’s principles wanting
A cricket match offered a field to engage on rights issues but instead the government further isolated the Taliban.
Kabul has fallen and so have we
Kabul has fallen and so have we
Defeat in Afghanistan is not only a military one, but of the commitment professed by the “international community”.
India: A very colonial hangover
India: A very colonial hangover
The Pegasus spyware saga puts a spotlight, again, on a lack of parliamentary accountability for intelligence agencies.
The world sees the climate crisis in Australia’s floods. Do we?
The world sees the climate crisis in Australia’s floods. Do we?
Australia needs to lead in response to climate change or find itself become a global symbol for inaction.
Crushing dissent in a new paranoid India
Crushing dissent in a new paranoid India
As public protests grow, so does the government’s authoritarian urge.
India’s farmers take on Modi
India’s farmers take on Modi
The tactics that have allowed the Modi government to enforce unpopular new laws may not work this time.
Modi’s pandemic gambit
Modi’s pandemic gambit
A health calamity is unfolding, yet the government boasts about the best recovery rates in the world. Sound familiar?
India’s reckless rush to ruin
India’s reckless rush to ruin
Recent violence is a direct consequence of the ruling BJP government’s divisive policies, but unity is not yet all lost.
Fires to floods: My place in Australia’s summer of disaster
Fires to floods: My place in Australia’s summer of disaster
It seems a sin to want this rain to stop, when just a few weeks ago we were praying for this very thing.
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