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Benjamin Parkin

South Asia Correspondent

Benjamin Parkin is a correspondent for the Financial Times in New Delhi, covering South Asia. He started with the FT in 2019 and was previously based in Mumbai. Before that he worked for the Wall Street Journal.
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    UK trade
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