Balbir Punj is a journalist and columnist from India who has written on events in Hindi-English newspapers and magazines since the early 1990s.
17 Facts About Balbir Punj
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Balbir Punj specializes in writing about social, economic, and political issues.
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Balbir Punj worked for Financial Express from 1974 to 1996.
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Balbir Punj then worked for The Observer of Business and Politics as an Executive Editor from May 1996 to March 2000.
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Balbir Punj was chairman of the IIMC, a Southeast Asian media training organization, for two years until March 2000.
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Balbir Punj participated in the Delhi Journalists Association, where he served as President for two consecutive terms between 1989 and 1991.
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Balbir Punj was chairman of the National Commission for Youth.
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On May 18,2022, Balbir Punj was conferred the Lifelong Devrishi Narad Samman Award.
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Balbir Punj's phone calls to the director-general of police, the police commissioner, the chief secretary, the additional chief secretary were ignored.
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Balbir Punj took up this incident in his rejoinder published as "Dissimulation In Word and Images" in Outlook, July 8,2002.
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Balbir Punj had written Mahmud of Ghazni "took a vow to wage jihad every year against Indian idolators".
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Balbir Punj was a former member of Rajya Sabha for two terms.
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In 2008, Balbir Punj was again elected a member of Rajya Sabha from Odisha and retired in 2014.
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Balbir Punj was the convener of the Intellectual Cell of the BJP for a decade, helping the party chart its ideological course.
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Balbir Punj was chairman of the National Commission for Youth.
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Balbir Punj is a board member of Bishweshwar Prasad Koirala India-Nepal Foundation under Ministry of External Affairs, India since July 2017.
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Balbir Punj is described as a close associate of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.