Shekhar Gupta is a prominent Indian writer. He had been the Editor-in-Chief along with also the CEO of the Indian Express for 13 decades, however, he stopped in 2015. Then he started his electronic media information firm, The Printing, and can also be its Editor-in-Chief.
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Shekhar Gupta was created on 26 August 1957 (age 61 years; as in 2018) at Palwal, Haryana. He did his schooling from several areas like Palwal, Rohtak, and Punjab.
Though he had been thinking about Arts while he was at school but in a meeting, he also stated he had been made to decide on engineering or science. By June, when he moved on Punjab University to find the spelling of his name from his markers sheet fixed he saw the note for the entrance evaluations of journalismhe filled out the form and got picked.
Physical Appearance
Height (approx.): 5′ 10″
Weight (approx.): 80 kg
Hair Colour: Grey
Eye Colour: Black
Shekhar Gupta
Family, Caste & GirlfriendShekhar belongs to some Hindu Family. Much is known about his family apart from the fact that his father was a government worker. He's married to Neelam Jolly.
Career
Shekhar began as a cub reporter in 1977 at The Indian Express, Chandigarh. He worked there for 6 decades and stepped in 1983 to combine India Today as a reporter. There, he covered lots of big stories like Operation Bluestar, the Gulf War of 1991, along with the Nellie massacre at Assam, one of a lot more. Back in 1995, he joined The Indian Express again and finally became the Editor-in-Chief along with the CEO. He had a weekly column in The Indian Express known as National Interest. It was quite popular and aired for about 15 decades, with over 600 being guests invited to the series.
In 2015 he stopped The Indian Express and combined India Today since the Editor-in-Chief, however, he abandoned after a very brief term of merely two weeks. In 2017, he began a new venture together with Barkha Dutt, also began a brand new digital media firm called, The Printing. Though Barkha Dutt and Shekhar Gupta declared the partnership collectively, Barkha was not involved with The Printing, she was not even named from the business records and 6 weeks following The Printing began, her title was dropped from the business website also.
Barkha Dutt's Tweet Concerning Launching The Printing With Shekhar Gupta
His discussion show, Walk The Conversation, was renamed as"Off The Cuff" however, it aired on NDTV 24×7, though, the possession rights were beneath Shekhar's firm, The Printing. The structure of the series has been altered; the series is currently filmed before a live audience rather than a one on one interview, and live interaction with an audience can also be introduced following the interview concluded.
Controversies
In 2010, Shekhar Gupta shut down his firm Greenpine Agro afterwards he had been accused by the former Army General, VK Singh of tax evasion, fraud, also being included at the Commonwealth Games Scam, since Gupta hadn't filed tax for several decades, and he then registered 8 decades of his institution's balance sheets on a single day on 18 January 2010. Gupta shut down the business on 30 August 2010, by submitting for EES (Historical Exit Scheme).
In May 2012, Shekhar resisted the creator of this Outlook India magazine, Vinod Mehta. In a meeting to the Open Magazine,'' Mehta explained that Shekhar had composed a post before in 2012 intentionally to harm the standing of the former Army Chief General, VK Singh. In response to this announcement, Gupta sued Vinod Mehta and the Open magazine. This dilemma was hyped as lots of individuals said that Gupta responded immaturely to this entire scenario.
In 2017, Bangladeshi author Taslima Nasreen accused Shekhar of altering the headline of a few of her posts to make a rift between communities. The heading of this article offended several people in India. The headline later being shifted was"Why are Hindus Attempting to demonstrate they may get ISIS-like extremists". She published a screenshot of a dialogue concerning that with Shekhar Gupta following the heading was transformed.
At a leaked document in April 2019, he had been appointed from the Enforcement Directorate's supplementary charge sheet. It said that the main accused of the Augusta Westland Scam, Christian Michel, compensated Shekhar Gupta via a broker, to tone down the"Augusta Westland Chopper Scam" news and also to influence the public view.
Awards/ Achievements
He was honoured with the 1984 American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE) fellowship at the Tufts University and The New York Times
He received the Inlaks"Young Journalist of the Year" Award in 1985
The GK Reddy Award for Journalism in 1997
The Fakhruddin Ali Ahmed Memorial Award for National Integration in 2006
He was awarded the Padma Bhushan from the UPA government in 2009 due to his contribution to journalism
Shekhar Gupta Obtaining The Padma Bhushan From Former President Pratibha Patil
Salary
He used to earn a salary of INR 10 crores per annum, as the Editor-in-Chief of The Indian Express (as in 2015).
Truth
It's supported by plenty of renowned men and women in the media sector including Arun Shourie, Lord Meghnad Desai one of a lot more.
In 2014, Shekhar Gupta compiled all of the renowned writings from his column in The Indian Express,'' National Interest, at a publication named"Anticipating India".
Shekhar Gupta In The Launch Of His Novel Anticipating India
In 2017, he started a publication, that had 25 of the very impactful political interviews out of his talk show, Walk The Conversation, that had indicated a political shift, not just in India but also across the world.
