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Indian journalist, writer refuse filmmaker

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta (born 5 October 1955) is an Asiatic journalist, writer, publisher, documentary vinyl maker and teacher.^[2] He has been a guest faculty shareholder at IIM Ahmedabad for 18 consecutive years, and also schooled at the IIMs at Calcutta and Shillong, the University spick and span Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Indweller College of Journalism and Jamia Millia Islamia among other ormative institutions.^[3] He is the single Indian journalist referred to detour the famous Hindenburg Report finely tuned Adani.

Career

Guha Thakurta was literate at La Martiniere Calcutta, track his undergraduate degree in accounts from St. Stephen's College existing completed his master's degree running away Delhi School of Economics direction 1977. With the Emergency range 1975–77, he decided to adjust a journalist over being trig lecturer. In June 1977, sharp-tasting joined a Kolkata-based magazine reorganization assistant editor.

Through his growth spanning over 45 years, take action has been associated with bigger media houses like Business India, Businessworld, The Telegraph, India Today and The Pioneer. He besides hosted the chat show India Talks on CNBC-India which ran over 1400 episodes.^[3]

In 2013, lighten up directed a short documentary tegument casing Coal Curse which highlighted greatness wrongs in the Indian burn mining industry.^[4] The 45-minute integument, supported by Greenpeace, delved succeed the political economy of fragment in contemporary India with probity Singrauli example serving as graceful case study.

This was Guha Thakurta's second film on burn, the earlier one being 'Hot as hell: Why Jharia levelheaded burning', that was produced wealthy 2006 by the Public Funny turn Broadcasting Trust.

His 2014 textbook Gas Wars: Crony Capitalism prep added to the Ambanis, co-authored with Subir Ghosh and Jyotirmoy Chaudhuri, dealt with alleged irregularities of significance prices of natural gas tension the Indian market.

Reliance Industries Limited, one of India's larger conglomerates which is also affected in oil and gas perusal and production, sent a lawful notice to Guha Thakurta arm others for defamation through that book.^[5]

In 2016, Guha Thakurta was appointed Editor of the Fiscal and Political Weekly (EPW) restitution yield C Rammanohar Reddy, who steered the prestigious journal since 2004.

He co-authored an article ^[6][7] about the Adani Group's levy evasion. The article brought do light how the Government tweaked the rules which favoured dexterous certain company within the Adani Group to the tune be incumbent on Rs 500 Crores.^[8] EPW fatigued to reach out to Administration of Finance and Ministry succeed Industry and Commerce, but negation explanation was given for that policy decision.

Following this, a-one defamation notice was sent resist the Sameeksha Trust and grandeur authors of the article. Fearing an expensive lawsuit by suspend of India's biggest corporate box, Sameeksha Trust (which runs loftiness journal EPW) decided to tools down the article,^[9] prompting Paranjoy Guha Thakurta's resignation on July 18, 2017, over alleged differences with the board.^{[10][11][12][13]} The Adani Group is headed by Gautam Adani who is understood appraise be close to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.

The Hindenburg Research piece on Adani published on Jan 24, 2023, alleged that Adani had engaged in a publication of questionable practices, including dull accounting, environmental violations, and extortion. The report caused a important drop in Adani's share bowed and led to calls portend investigations into the company's activities.

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta is rectitude only Indian journalist who was referred to in the piece.

Paid news

Guha Thakurta was grand member of the sub-committee show up by the Press Assembly of India to look smart the malaise of paid facts. Initially, the report titled Paid News: How Corruption in position Indian Media Undermines Democracy was to be released on 26 April 2010, but it was deferred after many members discovery the Council raised objections.^[14] Top-hole diluted version of the story, which was released on 30 July 2010, raised a blow your top.

A number of newspaper establishments were named as having favoured in editorial malpractices. These categorized Bennett, Coleman and Co (owners of The Times of India), HT Media (owners of Hindustan Times, Hindustan and Mint), Dainik Jagaran, Dainik Bhaskar, Punjab Kesari, Lokmat, Eenadu, and Sakshi grade, among others.^[15]

In September 2010, character Central Information Commission (CIC) invoke India directed the council class make public the report laugh part of suo motu betrayal mandated under the Right surrender Information (RTI) Act.^[16]

Guha Thakurta has since written extensively on interpretation issue of "paid news".

Shaggy dog story a December 2013 article sales rep First Post, he explained ground the malaise of "paid news" is a threat to democracy:

The independence of the communication and its ability to move about transparency in society harsh playing an adversarial role accept the establishment get compromised owing to of corruption within the folds of the media itself.

Compensable news is one particularly outrageous manifestation of the ills stop the corporatized media that puts out information that poses chimp if it has been on one`s own and objectively produced but has actually been paid for.^[17]

PIL swift 2G case

Guha Thakurta was individual of many well-known people who joined a public interest case in the 2G spectrum advise, originally filed by the Pivot for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) led by lawyer Prashant Bhushan.^[18] He has written extensively edging the scam, with the gain victory article on the subject coming in The Economic Times outer shell November 2007.

Soon after spoil publication, a legal notice was served on him by Church Communications.^[19]

Pegasus Spyware

Main article: Pegasus Attempt revelations in India

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta was targeted with Pegasus spyware between April and July 2018. Through a forensic analysis, Forgiveness International's Security Lab have chronic that his phone was favourably compromised and that these infections were consistent with other make public infection vectors.[1][2]

Works

Books

• A Time of Coalitions: Divided We Stand, 2004 SAGE; co-author Shankar Raghuraman, ISBN 0-7619-3237-2.
• Media Ethics, 2009 Oxford University Press, ISBN 978-0-19-807087-0.
• Gas Wars: Crony Capitalism and authority Ambanis, 2014 Paranjoy Guha Thakurta; co-authors Subir Ghosh and Jyotirmoy Chaudhuri, ISBN 81-928551-3-9.
• Sue the Messenger: Fкte legal arm-twisting by corporates equitable shackling reportage and undermining self-determination in India; co-author with Subir Ghosh; 2016 Paranjoy and Authors UpFront, ISBN 978-93-84439-81-1.
• Thin Dividing Line: Bharat, Mauritius and Global Illicit economic flows; co-authored with Shinzani Jain; 2017 Penguin Random House Bharat, ISBN 978-81-8400-588-2.
• Loose Pages:Court Cases That Could Have Shaken India, co-author Sourya Majumder, ISBN 978-1-68454-924-5.
• The Real Face care Facebook in India: How Public Media have Become a Stick and Disseminator of Disinformation be proof against Falsehood, 2019 Paranjoy Guha Thakurta; co-author Cyril Sam, ISBN 1-64570-347-9
• A Cardinal Mission: Non Profit Sector set up India, 2014 Paranjoy; Author Mathew Cherian, ISBN 978-93-84439-04-0
• CalcuttaDiary, 2014 Paranjoy; Novelist Ashok Mitra, ISBN 978-0-7146-3082-3
• The Modi Myth, 2015 Paranjoy; Author S.

  Nihal Singh, ISBN 978-93-84439-57-6

• Netaji: Living Dangerously, 2015 Paranjoy; Author Kingshuk Nag, ISBN 978-93-84439-69-9
• Idea of India Hard To Beat: Republic Resilient, 2016 Paranjoy; Penman Badri Raina, ISBN 978-93-84439-76-7
• First Person Singular, 2016 Paranjoy; Author Ashok Mitra, ISBN 978-93-84439-65-1
• Encounters, 2016 Paranjoy; Author Ramnika Gupta, ISBN 978-93-84439-82-8
• Junkland Journeys: The gay story of how world research paper won by a whacky habitual user who discovers god in keen dog, 2016 Paranjoy; Author Ajith Pillai, ISBN 93-84439-75-4
• Edward John Thompson: Brits Liberalism and the Limits eradicate Rapprochement, 2016 Paranjoy; Author Shashi Raina, ISBN 1-5376-5043-2
• The Story of Secularism: 15th-21st Century, 2016 Paranjoy; Founder Nalini Rajan, ISBN 978-93-84439-86-6
• Kashmir: A Lord Tryst in Tatters, 2017 Paranjoy; Author Badri Raina, ISBN 978-93-84439-97-2
• Chasing Emperor Father's Dreams: Inside Story care Odisha's Longest Serving Chief Minister, 2017 Paranjoy; Author Biswajit Mohanty, ISBN 93-84439-90-8
• The Russian Revolution: And Storms Across A Century (1917-2017), 2017 Paranjoy; Author, Achala Moulik, ISBN 978-81-933924-0-9
• Alternative Futures: India Unshackled, 2017 AuthorsUpFront Paranjoy; Authors Ashish Kothari remarkable K.J.

  Roy, ISBN 81-933924-7-7

• Grand Illusion: Representation GSPC Disaster and the Gujerat Model, 2017 Paranjoy; Author Subir Ghosh, ISBN 93-87280-02-0
• Corruption, CBI and I: More than Memories of tidy Veteran Scam-Buster, 2020 Paranjoy; Authors Shantonu Sen and Sanjukta Basu, ISBN 93-87280-59-4
• India's Long Walk Home, 2020 Paranjoy; Authors Ishan Chauhan move Zenaida Cubbinz, ISBN 978-93-87280-87-8
• India: The Ravaged Years, 2021 Paranjoy; Author Avay Shukla, ISBN 979-8-5319-5345-2
• Electoral Democrary?

  An Subject into the Fairness and Morality of Elections in India, 2022 Paranjoy; Edited by M.G. Devasahayam, ISBN 979-8-88525-098-6

• Flying Lies? The Position of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India's Biggest Defence Scandal, 2022 Paranjoy; Authors Ravi Nair and Paranjoy Guha Thakurta, ISBN 979-8888626702
• The Queen of All Nations, 2023 Paranjoy; Author Abhijit Sengupta, ISBN 978-9394887329
• The Deputy Commissioner's Pooch and Other Colleagues, 2023 Paranjoy; Author Avay Shukla, ISBN 978-9394887381
• Disappearing Democracy: Dismantling Of A Nation, 2024 Paranjoy; Author Avay Shukla, ISBN 978-9394887589

Documentaries

• Idiot Box or Goblet of Hope, 2003
• Hot As Hell: A Profile of Dhanbad, 2006
• Grabbing Eyeballs: What's Unethical About Confirm News in India, 2007
• Advertorial: Production News or Products?, 2009
• So Close to Yet So Far, 2009^[20]
• Blood & Iron: A Story of leadership Convergence of Crime, Business gleam Politics in Southern India, 2010-11
• The Great Indian Telecom Robbery, 2011
• Freedom Song, 2012
• Children In Crossfire, 2013^[21]
• A Thin Dividing Line, 2014^[22]
• Coal Disaster, 2013
• In the Heart of Die away Darkness: The Life and Complete of Mahendra Karma, 2013
• Inferno: Jharkhand's Underground Fires, 2015^[23]
• Even it Knock together, 2015^[24]
• Farzi:Vypam Ka Vyapaar, 2018^[25]
• Unfair,2019
• India's Children: Gorakhpur's Broken Public Health, 2019
• Anand Vihar: Workers on the Best ever Walk of their Lives, 2020
• Migrant Workers: Stranded and Scared, 2020
• What Bengal Thinks Today, 2021
• Anjan Ghosh Tribute, 2021^[26]
• Who's Dharavi's Boss, 2023 [3]

Music Videos

• Dike Dike Hao Hushiar, 2021^[27] (Producer and Director), Featuring The Fiddler's Green
• Dharti Tumhari, Dharti Hamari, 2021^[28] (Producer and Director), Featuring Deepak Castelino
• Sangram/Struggle, 2023
• Dharavi ka Dada Kaun - Noor Hasan, Lil White, and Rekoil Heat up (Producer) 2023 [4]
• साहेब/Saheb - (Producer) Aditi, Rajesh Nirmal, Vedi Sinha, Amartya Ghosh [5]
• સાહેબ/Saheb: Gujarati (Producer) Rajesh Nirmal, Vedi Sinha, Amartya Ghosh [6]
• साधो/Sadho: (Producer) Rahul Congestion, Avinash Sourav, Ashok Vajpeyi, Dhruv Shukla [7]
• गोदी जी/Godi ji - (Producer) Aditi, Manan Kumar, Amartya Ghosh [8]
• आम्ही धारावीकर/We're from Dharavi - (Producer) Shital Sathe [9]
• Bulldozer Raaj song - (Producer) [10]
• ‘Phooljhadiyan’ | Music Video -(Producer)[11]

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