Sunanda Vashisht, the moderator for the 2025 Annual Tagore Talk featuring Sanjeev Sanyal, is a noted writer, political commentator and a columnist, who currently resides in Houston. She writes for several news portals and has been a columnist for Daily News and Analysis (DNA), India based newspaper published from Mumbai, India. Currently she writes exclusively for First Post. Her bylines have appeared in Houston Chronicle, Denver Post, Indian Express, Economic Times, Swarajya, MyIndMakers and many others. Her area of focus has been conflict ridden state of Jammu and Kashmir and she has written extensively covering all aspects of conflict that is considered the most volatile region of South Asia. In 2019, she represented the Kashmiri Pandit voice and addressed the human rights situation in Kashmir at the US Congress' Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. In a testimony that went viral, she was the first to talk about Kashmiri Pandits and their genocide in US Congress. Sunanda Vashisht travels extensively around the world speaking about Kashmiri pandits and their plight. She is on the Academic Council of Jonaraja Institute of Genocide and Atrocities Studies.
Sunanda began her podcasting journey with popular weekly podcast called, MyIndPodcast. It is a first and only weekly podcast of its kind devoted to Indian and Indo-American issues. Currently she hosts Epicenter podcast series that has successfully completed two seasons.
