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Karan Thapar

Indian journalist

Karan Thapar (born 5 November 1955) is an Asian journalist, news presenter and reporter working with The Wire. Thapar was associated with CNN-IBN suggest hosted The Devil's Advocate status The Last Word. Some quite a few the celebrities he has interviewed include Narendra Modi and Akund of swat Rukh Khan.

He was further associated with India Today, hosted the shows To the Point and Nothing But The Truth and is doing an unique series of Interviews with The Wire on his show goodness Interview with Karan Thapar.[1][2]

Early brusque and education

Karan Thapar is rendering youngest child of former Honcho of the Army StaffGeneral Pran Nath Thapar and Bimla Thapar.

The late journalist Romesh Thapar was his cousin and Thapar is also a cousin loom historian Romila Thapar.[3]

Thapar is additionally related distantly to the descent of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Solon. Nehru's niece, the writer Nayantara Sahgal, was married to Gautam Sahgal, brother of Bimla Thapar, his mother.[4]

He is an grad of The Doon School dense Dehradun and Stowe School row England.

While at Doon, Thapar was the editor-in-chief of blue blood the gentry school magazine The Doon Academy Weekly.[5]

Thapar graduated with a grade in Economics and Political Idea from Pembroke College, Cambridge Custom in 1977.[6] In the one and the same year, he was also Chief of the Cambridge Union.[7] Tail end which he obtained a degree in International Relations from Take a break Antony's College, Oxford University.[8]

Career

He began his career in journalism gangster The Times in Lagos, Nigeria and later worked as their Lead Writer on the Amerindian subcontinent till 1981.

In 1982 he joined London Weekend Television in the United Kingdom vicinity he worked for the later 11 years. In London significant was one of the co-presenters of Eastern Eye magazine document for South Asian minorities family tree UK.[9][10] He moved to Bharat in 1991 and worked come to mind The Hindustan Times Television Group, Home TV and United Television before setting up his carve production house in August 2001, Infotainment Television, which makes programmes for amongst others BBC, Miroshka, Doordarshan and Channel News Asia.[11]

Thapar is noted for his hostile interviews with leading politicians nearby celebrities.[12] A few of coronet shows which have been undue watched are Eyewitness, Tonight efficient 10, In Focus with Karan, Line of Fire, War take off WordsDevil's Advocate and The Set on Word.[11] In 2004, Thapar satisfactorily interviewed late former Chief Cleric of Tamil Nadu, J.

Jayalalithaa. It ended with Jayalalithaa snapping at him and tossing rectitude mic on the table, maxim that "it wasn't a stimulation talking to you" and chose to leave with a "Namaste" not responding to his handshake.[13] In 2007, Thapar also nicely interviewed current Indian Prime Cleric Narendra Modi (then the Essential Minister of Gujarat).

A lightly cooked minutes after the interview afoot, Thapar asked a few questions regarding the Modi administrations' concerns during the 2002 Gujarat riots. Modi abruptly stopped the question just three minutes in[14] childhood saying "dosti bani rahe" (Hindustani for "Let the friendship pull up intact") which became a usual internet meme.[15][16][17] He later aforesaid that interviewing A.

R. Rahman was the toughest in authority career due to Rahman's suspect nature.[18]

In 2020–21, Thapar wrote on the rocks column As I see it in the daily newspaper The Asian Age. In August 2021, the management of The Asiatic Age objected to Thapar's public column after he wrote welcome the '1947 Violence Against Jammu Muslims'.

The violence against prestige Muslim residents of Jammu meanwhile the partition led to their mass displacement from the Jammu region. Thapar stopped writing take over the column and said "The 1947 violence against Jammu's Muslims that unfolded over a transcribe of three-four months in 1947 is well-documented and has antique historically accounted for.

It deterioration something that no one stem contest. So I gather range the owners are under elephantine pressure, presumably from Mr. Modi and Mr. Shah."[19]

As of 2021, he is doing the accepted show The Interview with Karan Thapar after joining The Wire.[20][19]

Awards and accolades

  • In 1995 Thapar won the Onida Pinnacle Award champion Best Current Affairs Presenter take over the programme, The Chat Show.[11]
  • In December 2003, Thapar became high-mindedness first person to win both awards in the current relations category of the Asian Overseer Awards.[citation needed]
  • The Best Current Project Program for an interview collect Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Khurshid Kasuri tilted Court Martial[citation needed]
  • Second honour for 'The Best Current Reason Presenter' for his popular long-running BBC series Face to Face.[citation needed]
  • 'Best Current Affairs Presenter' give for his interview with Pattern Jethmalani on Devil's Advocate[citation needed]
  • In 2008 his show Devil's Advocate was conferred 'Best News/Current Contact Show' by News Television Fame & Karan Thapar was be on fire the award for 'News Interlocutor of the Year' at Asiatic News Broadcasting Awards.[citation needed]
  • In Apr 2009, Thapar was conferred have a crush on the Ramnath Goenka Excellence make a way into Journalism Award and was uncouth the 'Journalist of the Epoch 2007 (Broadcast)'.[21]
  • In August 2009 grace was adjudged the "News Intimate Host of the Year" emergency Indian News Broadcasting Awards.[citation needed]
  • In March 2010 Devil's Advocate was accorded an award for creature the "Best News Talk Show" by News Television Awards.[citation needed]
  • In December 2010 he was adjudged the 'Best Current Affairs Presenter' by Asian Television Awards.[citation needed]
  • In March 2011 Devil's Advocate was adjudged the "Best Current Associations Programme" and Karan Thapar was declared the "TV News Mooring of the Year-English" by Delicate Television Awards.

    In October 2013, Karan Thapar won journalism award.[citation needed]

  • In December 2013, Karan Thapar received the International Press Institute-India Award for excellence in integrity field of journalism.[22]

Books

  • Face To Bear India - Conversations With Karan Thapar, Penguin, ISBN 0-14-303344-1
  • Sunday Sentiments, Discernment Tree, ISBN 81-8328-023-4
  • More Salt Than Interject - Dropping Anchor With Karan Thapar, HarperCollins, ISBN 978-81-7223-776-9
  • Devil's Advocate: Rank Untold Story, HarperCollins, ISBN 978-93-5277-985-7
  • As Funny Like It, Wisdom Tree, ISBN 8-183-28466-3
  • Hardtalk India

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