Mayank Chhaya is a respected journalist and writer with close to four and a half decades of reporting out of India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka and the United States. He has reported all major news stories out of India since 1982. He is a widely published commentator on global affairs but in particular on South Asian and Sino-Tibetan affairs.

 

He is also an authorized biographer of the Dalai Lama whose book ‘Man, Monk, Mystic’ has been published in 24 languages around the world, including in America by Random House.

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The book has been updated with four new chapters under a new title 'The Dénouement: The 14th Dalai Lama's life of persistence' and is available at Amazon. 

 

Chhaya is also the writer, director, editor and cameraman of a feature-length critically acclaimed documentary titled ‘Gandhi’s Song’ which is now going through international distribution.

 

He has three books to his credit apart from having contributed chapters to four other books.  He is currently working on three more books, including one about ‘Gravity’ and the city of Ahmedabad, his native.

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He hosts his own interview-based show Mayank Chhaya Reports on YouTube.

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He paints, writes, composes, sings and produces music. Check out his music channel.