Kunda Dixit is a Nepali editor and publisher. He is a graduate of Columbia University, and started out as a radio journalist with the BBC at the United Nations in New York. He then served as Director, Asia-Pacific of the news agency, Inter Press Service and later Panos Institute South Asia. He is the editor of the Nepali Times newspaper in Kathmandu. His recent books include Dateline Earth: Jouranlism As If the Planet Mattered and A People War.