Arun Kumar is a veteran journalist and Associate Editor with Hindustan Times, based in Patna. For more than three and a half decades, his reporting has chronicled Bihar's complex political landscape, university and educational reforms, landmark judicial rulings of the Patna High Court, administrative governance, and social shifts across the state. Known for deep investigative reporting and source-grounded accountability journalism, he is a recipient of the prestigious K.C. Kulish Journalism Award and the Keshav Bhatt Journalism Award, and is an LDM Fellow.

Currently actively based out of Patna as Associate Editor for Hindustan Times, Arun Kumar continues to provide daily, real-time investigative and beat reporting on Bihar's political developments, cabinet affairs, higher education policy shifts, BPSC recruitments, and Patna High Court orders.

Throughout his three and a half decades of reporting at the Hindustan Times, his journalism has documented multiple decades of Bihar state governance, shifting coalition equations, teacher recruitment movements (TRE / BPSC), university governance battles, and landmark judicial rulings.

This living archive is dynamically maintained to preserve every published dispatch with cryptographic provenance (SHA-256 hashes) and direct links to live Hindustan Times canonical records and Internet Archive Wayback snapshots.