Apratim Mukarji is a veteran in conflict reporting. He cut his teeth covering the Naxalbari Movement in its bloody days in West Bengal for the famed Amrit Bazar Patrika. His next obvious vocation was to report the raging Sri Lankan civil war when he joined the Hindustan Times in Delhi. He has authored three books on Sri Lanka so far. As a foreign correspondent, Mukarji has travelled extensively across Afghanistan acquiring knowledge and sources in his first trip in 2002.