About

Suvam has been a cross-platform international journalist with over 20 years of experience working in five of the world's most ethnically unique and culturally diverse countries - China, India, South Africa, the UAE and Taiwan. He has become the first-ever Indian journalist to work in Taiwan since joining TaiwanPlus (www.TaiwanPlus.com) - a Taipei-headquartered international English news channel - in 2023. He is also the only journalist to have worked for the respective state media or state-funded media in both China and Taiwan. He has a basic knowledge of speaking, reading and writing in Chinese Mandarin. Previously, he worked for some of the leading media organizations in India, South Africa and China, apart from publishing several books with reputed international publishing houses like HarperCollins and Routledge. He has hands-on experience working in all forms of media, including print, radio, television and digital/web, and has published articles in three different languages: English, Hindi, and Bengali.

As a multi-lingual guest reporter/expert, he has appeared on the UK's BBC, Germany’s DW News & Bild TV and several leading Indian news channels – Doordarshan News, Times Now, India Today, Republic TV, CNNNews18, WION, Mirror Now, ET Now, India Ahead, Aaj Tak, ABP News, TV9 Bharatvarsh, ABP Ananda & Odisha TV. He has also been regularly writing for China’s CCTV.com, CGTN, Guancha, UAE-based Khaleej Times, Australia-based SBS, Russia’s Sputnik International, and various English and vernacular Indian publications/websites like The Print, India Today, The Times of India, The Telegraph, Moneycontrol.com, Firstpost, Outlook, Financial Express, DailyO, Outlook Traveller, Mid-Day, Mumbai Mirror, GoNews24x7, Patrika (Hindi), Anandabazar Patrika (Bengali), Ei Samay (Bengali), Uttarbanga Sambad & Ebela (Bengali) on a vast range of topics. He also periodically produces a series of international affairs-focused podcasts, inviting scholars from the US, UK, India & China for Think Tanks and international institutions.

Suvam was raised in Santiniketan in West Bengal, India, and studied at Visva Bharati, a global university founded by Asia’s first-ever Nobel laureate and world-renowned author Rabindranath Tagore. He also pursued his journalism degree from India’s premier media-learning center, the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC) in Delhi, and a mobile filmmaking diploma from the prestigious Film and Television Institute of India (FTII), Pune.

As an intrepid traveler, Suvam has crisscrossed many territories and countries, including India, China, South Africa, Australia, France, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Mongolia, Finland, Norway, Estonia, The UAE, Thailand, Kazakhstan, The Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Brunei Darussalam, Laos, Palau, Nepal, Taiwan, Hong Kong SAR & Macao SAR, and has been to some of the unique destinations such as Mount Everest North Base Camp in Tibet, China, Panmunjom in DMZ in South Korea, the Great Barrier Reef & Uluru (Ayers Rock) in Australia, Gobi Desert in Mongolia, Hiroshima & Nagasaki in Japan and Kruger National Park in South Africa. He has also visited the Great Wall's eastern and western ends at Laolongtou (Shanhaiguan) and Jiayuguan.