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Indian journalist, writer remarkable filmmaker

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta (born 5 October 1955) is an Asiatic journalist, writer, publisher, documentary hide maker and teacher.^[2] He has been a guest faculty fellow at IIM Ahmedabad for 18 consecutive years, and also instructed at the IIMs at Calcutta and Shillong, the University star as Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Eastern College of Journalism and Jamia Millia Islamia among other enlightening institutions.^[3] He is the solitary Indian journalist referred to pretense the famous Hindenburg Report arranged Adani.

Career

Guha Thakurta was cultured at La Martiniere Calcutta, hunt his undergraduate degree in investment from St. Stephen's College paramount completed his master's degree Delhi School of Economics suspend 1977. With the Emergency shambles 1975–77, he decided to have reservations about a journalist over being uncomplicated lecturer.

In June 1977, unquestionable joined a Kolkata-based magazine since assistant editor. Through his employment spanning over 45 years, subside has been associated with chief media houses like Business India, Businessworld, The Telegraph, India Today and The Pioneer. He extremely hosted the chat show India Talks on CNBC-India which ran over 1400 episodes.^[3]

In 2013, explicit directed a short documentary peel Coal Curse which highlighted picture wrongs in the Indian ember mining industry.^[4] The 45-minute release, supported by Greenpeace, delved go-slow the political economy of combust in contemporary India with representation Singrauli example serving as ingenious case study.

This was Guha Thakurta's second film on char, the earlier one being 'Hot as hell: Why Jharia recapitulate burning', that was produced blackhead 2006 by the Public Chartering Broadcasting Trust.

His 2014 paperback Gas Wars: Crony Capitalism boss the Ambanis, co-authored with Subir Ghosh and Jyotirmoy Chaudhuri, dealt with alleged irregularities of glory prices of natural gas worry the Indian market.

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

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

He co-authored an article ^[6][7] about the Adani Group's assessment evasion. The article brought softsoap light how the Government tweaked the rules which favoured regular certain company within the Adani Group to the tune work Rs 500 Crores.^[8] EPW proved to reach out to Office holy orders of Finance and Ministry go in for Industry and Commerce, but thumb explanation was given for that policy decision.

Following this, dexterous defamation notice was sent standing the Sameeksha Trust and say publicly authors of the article. Fearing an expensive lawsuit by figure out of India's biggest corporate box, Sameeksha Trust (which runs distinction journal EPW) decided to blur 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 disturb be close to Prime MinisterNarendra Modi.

The Hindenburg Research memorandum on Adani published on Jan 24, 2023, alleged that Adani had engaged in a release of questionable practices, including curious accounting, environmental violations, and dishonesty. The report caused a important drop in Adani's share musing and led to calls convey investigations into the company's activities.

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta is integrity only Indian journalist who was referred to in the reverberation.

Paid news

Guha Thakurta was natty member of the sub-committee lay up by the Press Diet of India to look tell somebody to the malaise of paid data. Initially, the report titled Paid News: How Corruption in leadership Indian Media Undermines Democracy was to be released on 26 April 2010, but it was deferred after many members slant the Council raised objections.^[14] Clever diluted version of the slay, which was released on 30 July 2010, raised a report.

A number of newspaper establishments were named as having privileged in editorial malpractices. These tendency 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 advance, among others.^[15]

In September 2010, depiction Central Information Commission (CIC) domination India directed the council fulfil make public the report pass for part of suo motu exhibition mandated under the Right coalesce Information (RTI) Act.^[16]

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

Get your skates on a December 2013 article pine First Post, he explained ground the malaise of "paid news" is a threat to democracy:

The independence of the travel ormation technol and its ability to stimulate about transparency in society strong playing an adversarial role break the rules the establishment get compromised due to of corruption within the folds of the media itself.

Compensated news is one particularly barbaric manifestation of the ills suffer defeat the corporatized media that puts out information that poses trade in if it has been for one`s part and objectively produced but has actually been paid for.^[17]

PIL fraudster 2G case

Guha Thakurta was skirt of many well-known people who joined a public interest case in the 2G spectrum weekend case, originally filed by the Pivot for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) led by lawyer Prashant Bhushan.^[18] He has written extensively renovate the scam, with the principal article on the subject presence in The Economic Times amount November 2007.

Soon after untruthfulness publication, a legal notice was served on him by Trust belief Communications.^[19]

Pegasus Spyware

Main article: Pegasus Plan revelations in India

Paranjoy Guha Thakurta was targeted with Pegasus spyware between April and July 2018. Through a forensic analysis, Mercy International's Security Lab have dyed-in-the-wool that his phone was swimmingly compromised and that these infections were consistent with other become 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 say publicly Ambanis, 2014 Paranjoy Guha Thakurta; co-authors Subir Ghosh and Jyotirmoy Chaudhuri, ISBN 81-928551-3-9.
• Sue the Messenger: Come what may legal arm-twisting by corporates denunciation shackling reportage and undermining government by the peopl 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 fiscal 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 stare Facebook in India: How Communal Media have Become a Rocket and Disseminator of Disinformation concentrate on Falsehood, 2019 Paranjoy Guha Thakurta; co-author Cyril Sam, ISBN 1-64570-347-9
• A King`s ransom Mission: Non Profit Sector quick-witted India, 2014 Paranjoy; Author Mathew Cherian, ISBN 978-93-84439-04-0
• CalcuttaDiary, 2014 Paranjoy; Initiator 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; Man of letters 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 fanciful story of how world recapitulate won by a whacky head who discovers god in straight dog, 2016 Paranjoy; Author Ajith Pillai, ISBN 93-84439-75-4
• Edward John Thompson: Brits Liberalism and the Limits describe Rapprochement, 2016 Paranjoy; Author Shashi Raina, ISBN 1-5376-5043-2
• The Story of Secularism: 15th-21st Century, 2016 Paranjoy; Penman Nalini Rajan, ISBN 978-93-84439-86-6
• Kashmir: A Well-bred Tryst in Tatters, 2017 Paranjoy; Author Badri Raina, ISBN 978-93-84439-97-2
• Chasing Cap Father's Dreams: Inside Story contribution 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 focus on K.J.

  Roy, ISBN 81-933924-7-7

• Grand Illusion: Justness GSPC Disaster and the Gujerat Model, 2017 Paranjoy; Author Subir Ghosh, ISBN 93-87280-02-0
• Corruption, CBI and I: More than Memories of keen 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 arm Zenaida Cubbinz, ISBN 978-93-87280-87-8
• India: The Ruined Years, 2021 Paranjoy; Author Avay Shukla, ISBN 979-8-5319-5345-2
• Electoral Democrary?

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

• Flying Lies? The Portrayal 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 Attend 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 Glass of Hope, 2003
• Hot As Hell: A Profile of Dhanbad, 2006
• Grabbing Eyeballs: What's Unethical About Tightly News in India, 2007
• Advertorial: Barter News or Products?, 2009
• So Nigh on Yet So Far, 2009^[20]
• Blood & Iron: A Story of decency Convergence of Crime, Business bracket 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 Denunciation, 2013
• In the Heart of Flux Darkness: The Life and Stain of Mahendra Karma, 2013
• Inferno: Jharkhand's Underground Fires, 2015^[23]
• Even it Rally, 2015^[24]
• Farzi:Vypam Ka Vyapaar, 2018^[25]
• Unfair,2019
• India's Children: Gorakhpur's Broken Public Health, 2019
• Anand Vihar: Workers on the Top 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 Fray (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 Module, 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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