Shyam Bhatia (born 1950) is an Indian-born British journalist, writer and war reporter based in London.^[1][2] He has reported from conflict zones such as the Middle East, Afghanistan and Sudan, and is a former diplomatic editor of The Observer.^[3] He has also served as US correspondent and Foreign Editor of the Bangalore-based Deccan Herald and Editor of Asian Affairs magazine in London.^[4]

Bhatia was educated at The Doon School in India and Leighton Park School in England before going to the University of Oxford.^[5][6] A contributor to The Times, Mail on Sunday, Politico, Deccan Herald and The Citizen, he is also a columnist for the Indian Express.^[7] He has published several books based on his war reporting, and a political biography of the former Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto (who was his contemporary at Oxford).^[8][9] In 1993, he won the Foreign Reporter of the Year for his coverage of the suffering of the Marsh Arabs in Southern Iraq.^[10] His May 2021 keynote interview about the spread of Covid with Dr Jerome Kim of the International Vaccine Institute was published by The Wire and broadcast on Youtube.

• Bhatia, Shyam (1980). India's Nuclear Bomb. Vikas. ISBN 978-0706909722.^[11]
• Bhatia, Shyam (1999). Brighter Than the Baghdad Sun. Little, Brown. ISBN 978-0316852654.^[12]
• Bhatia, Shyam (2002). Saddam's Bomb. Sphere. ISBN 978-0751534931.^[13]
• Bhatia, Shyam (2008). Goodbye Shahzadi: A Political Biography of Benazir Bhutto. Lotus. ISBN 978-8174366580.^[14][15]
• Bhatia, Shyam (2017). Nuclear Rivals in the Middle East. Routledge. ISBN 978-1138655430.^[16]
• Bhatia, Shyam (2016). Bullets and Bylines: From the Frontlines of Kabul, Delhi, Damascus and Beyond. Speaking Tiger. ISBN 978-9385755538.^[17][18]