Jitendra Dixit

Jitendra Dixit is the west India editor of ABP Network based in Mumbai. His experience of growing up in a Mumbai, beset with gang wars and communal clashes, led him to pursue a career in journalism in which he specializes in covering crime and conflict. From the 2002 Gujarat riots to the gang wars of the Mumbai underworld and the 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attacks, Jitendra has reported from the ground in a career spanning over two and a half decades. His documentary on the Kashmir elections of 2014 won the RedInk Award. In 2011, he participated in the Combat International Organised Crime Conference, organized by the FBI in New York. He has also assisted the US-based Rand Corporation in its investigation of the piracy business run by a gang in Mumbai. Dixit is the author of 35 Days, Bombay 3 and Valley of Red Snow.