Speaker Profile
Ghazala Wahab
About
Ghazala Wahab is the Editor of FORCE magazine and a prominent journalist and author. Her books include The Hindi Heartland (July 2025), The Peacemakers (edited, July 2023), Born a Muslim: Some Truths About Islam in India (March 2021), which won the Tata Lit Live and AttaGalatta Book of the Year (Non-Fiction) awards and was shortlisted for the Kamala Devi Chattopadhyay Book Prize 2022, and Dragon on Our Doorstep: Managing China Through Military Power (co-authored with Pravin Sawhney, February 2017). She co-founded FORCE in August 2003 with Pravin Sawhney and regularly writes on homeland security, terrorism, Jammu and Kashmir, Left-Wing Extremism, and religious extremism, in addition to contributing a monthly column, First Person. Her writing has also appeared in publications such as The Wire, Scroll, and The Indian Express. Prior to this, she worked as a principal correspondent in the Delhi bureau (features) of The Telegraph from 1998 to 2003 and began her journalism career with The Asian Age in 1994.