Somnath Batabyal is the author of two novels, the critically acclaimed Red River (Westland, 2024) and The Price You Pay (HarperCollins, 2013), a political noir situated in India’s capital city, New Delhi. The Price You Pay is now a major OTT series – Crime Beat – directed by one of India’s most prominent film directors, Sudhir Mishra.

Somnath is also the author of Making News in India (Routledge, 2012), the first newsroom ethnography of private television news channels in the country. Somnath lives in London where he teaches at SOAS, University of London.