You might not have known...
Scott has spent more than five years writing and researching in South Asia. His first trip was in 1998.

He drove a 1964 Royal Enfield Bullet across India --twice.

Scott once had to transport a body out of the lawless state of Bihar, India. To do so he had to construct a makeshift refrigerator out of plywood, blocks of ice and an air conditioner.

Scott speaks Hindi.

He was born in Providence, RI

Has "Hanooz Dili Dur Aast" tattooed in Urdu on his right arm. He respects people more when they don't ask him what it means when they first meet him.

The government of India considers him a Person of Indian Origin.

 

Journalist. Photographer. Anthropologist.

Investigative journalist Scott Carney has traveled to some of the most dangerous and unlikely corners of Asia and North America. On the crowded streets of Kolkata he uncovered a vast network of skeleton traders who rob graves to de-flesh corpses and sell them to American anatomy classrooms. On an assignment for National Geographic and WIRED News, he helped break a story about kidney brokers who sell human organs to foreign medical tourists in South India. In 2009 he tracked down a child who had been kidnapped from an Indian slum and sold into the American adoption stream to unsuspecting parents. In Bangalore, he connected the multi-billion dollar real estate boom to a violent land mafia. He has interviewed gangsters, hitmen, and the cops authorized to shoot them on sight.

A typical story can take six months to report and he has been generously supported by magazines and grant agencies that foot his bills.

He is a contributing editor at WIRED. His work has also appeared in Mother Jones, Discover, Marie Claire, net , National Geographic Television, GQ, the Wisconsin State Journal, Isthmus, Fodor's Travel Guides, Nerve.com, Dragonfire, India Today, Coreweekly and the Hindustan Times. He is a regular contributor to National Public Radio. His blog, Trailing Technology, attracts thousands of visitors every month. He is a member of the South Asian Journalists Association (SAJA).

In 2008 he was selected as a finalist for both the Livingston Award for International Journalism and the Daniel Pearl Award from SAJA for his piece "The Bone Factory". The title of his first book is tentatively titled "Spare Parts: A Backroom Tour of the Body Bazaar."

Background
Scott graduated from Kenyon College in 2000 and recieved a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in May 2004. He was admitted into the Ph.D. program but left during the dissertation phase to pursue journalism.

His wife Padma Govindan is the founder of the Shakti Center, a sex advice columnist, and continues to be the inspiration for his work. They live together in Chennai, India.