Thoughts about life and politics from Inderjit Badhwar, prominent journalist and novelist.
Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Inderjit Badhwar's new mag Views On News features FirstPost First Honch R. Jagannathan
Read the link to full Jagannatahn interview in Views On News Read First Post's First Honcho R. Jagannatahan's interview in my new mag Views On News. Fun. https://lnkd.in/eQnYm9s
Badhwar is an award winning author and journalist who has worked in the US and India on major publications and TV programs. His 2004 novel, “The Chamber of Perfumes” (original title “Sniffing Papa”) won France’s most prestigious international award as the “best foreign debut novel”, an honor that went earlier to Salman Rushdie for “Shame.”
A graduate of the Columbia School of Journalism where he won the Henry Taylor recognition for “superior journalism”, Badhwar’s last assignments in the US was as Senior Staff Associate for the “Washington Merrygoround” column with the legendary Jack Anderson, where Badhwar was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize. After more than 20 years as a Washington journalist and TV correspondent, Badhwar returned to India as Editor of India Today, Asia’s leading English news weekly, a post he held for 10 years, before becoming Executive Producer of TV Today, and Sahara TV. He now heads “Gfiles”, India’s first magazine devoted to issues of governance and the bureaucracy, and heads a Resource Centre that advises the Lexicon Group on strategic communications for heads of state.
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