Shekhar Gupta

Shekhar Gupta
Gupta at the 2009 World Economic Forum
Born (1957-08-26) 26 August 1957 (age 66)
NationalityIndian
Alma materPanjab University
OccupationJournalist
Known for
  • Hosting Walk the Talk
  • National Interest
  • Cut the Clutter
  • Off the Cuff ThePrint
TitleFounder & Editor-in-Chief of ThePrint
SpouseNeelam Jolly
AwardsPadma Bhushan (2009)

Shekhar Gupta (born 26 August 1957) is an Indian journalist and author.[1] He is the founder and the current editor-in-chief of ThePrint.[2][3] He is also a columnist for the Business Standard and pens a weekly column which appears every Saturday.[4]

He has had long stints at The Indian Express and India Today. Gupta writes a weekly column called "National Interest" for India Today magazine. His "National Interest" columns for The Indian Express were collected in his 2014 book Anticipating India. He also hosted an interview-based television show Walk the Talk on NDTV 24x7. He was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2009 by the Government of India for his contribution to journalism and was elected President of the Editor's Guild of India in 2018.[5]

  1. ^ Kaushik, Krishn (December 2014). "How profit and principle shaped the journalism of Shekhar Gupta". The Caravan. Retrieved 30 December 2019.
  2. ^ "About-The Print".
  3. ^ "To understand Modi's new Kashmir reality, these 5 liberal myths need to be broken". 17 August 2019.
  4. ^ Gupta, Shekhar (11 August 2018). "Shekhar Gupta: In Mulk, Indian Muslims look you in the eye". Business Standard India.
  5. ^ "Shekhar Gupta Elected New President of Editor's Guild of India". India Today.

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