Karan Thapar

Karan Thapar worked for ten years in television in the United Kingdom with London Weekend Television, on programmes like Weekend World, The World This Week, The Business Programme, The Walden Interview and Eastern Eye. Prior to that, he worked as a foreign correspondent with The Times, London. After his return to India in 1991, he presented well-known programmes such as Eyewitness (Doordarshan), HARDtalk India (BBC), Devil’s Advocate (CNN-IBN) and To The Point (India Today). Presently, he is the president of Infotainment Television (ITV). He writes a weekly column, ‘Sunday Sentiments’, for the Hindustan Times and a fortnightly column, ‘As I See It’, for Business Standard. Karan Thapar has won several awards such as the Asian Television Award for Best Current Affairs Presenter (five-time winner), the Ramnath Goenka Broadcast Journalist of the Year Award (2009) and the International Press Institute - India Award for Excellence in Journalism (2013).