Krithika Varagur
Krithika Varagur is an award-winning journalist who covers Indonesia for the Guardian and has written on Southeast and South Asia for a variety of publications. Her book, The Call: Inside the Global Saudi Religious Project looks at the influence of Saudi Arabian money on Salafi movements in a number of countries around the world, starting with Indonesia.
Books by Krithika Varagur
Interviews with Krithika Varagur
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The Malay Archipelago
by Alfred Russel Wallace -
2
The Gay Archipelago: Sexuality and Nation in Indonesia
by Tom Boellstorff -
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Twilight in Jakarta
by Claire Holt and John McGlynn (translators) & Mochtar Lubis -
4
Beauty is a Wound
by Annie Tucker (translator) & Eka Kurniawan -
5
Rimbaud in Java: The Lost Voyage
by Jamie James
The best books on Indonesia, recommended by Krithika Varagur
The best books on Indonesia, recommended by Krithika Varagur
It’s a beautiful nation of islands with staggering levels of biodiversity. It’s also home to more than a quarter of a billion people, many of them Muslim. And yet, it gets little regular coverage in the western media. Krithika Varagur, journalist and author of The Call, talks us through the books that most inspired and informed her as she reported on Indonesia.
