Manas Chaudhuri is an Indian journalist and the former editor of Shillong Times, an English-language daily published from the Meghalayan capital of Shillong.
16 Facts About Manas Chaudhuri
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Manas Chaudhuri won as a legislator to the Shillong Assembly twice from Mawprem constituency as an independent candidate.
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Manas Chaudhuri is a former cabinet minister of the State and served Shillong Times as its Editor from 1978 to 2008, when he resigned from the post for Patricia Mukhim to take over.
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Manas Chaudhuri is the founder of the Ardhendu Chaudhuri Charitable Trust.
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Manas Chaudhuri has earned respect in the field of journalism in the Northeast in general and Meghalaya in particular, on one hand, for his courageous exposes of corruption in high places and, on the other, for his fiercely independent, but liberal, editorial policy.
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Manas Chaudhuri is a member of the selection committee of the Media Exchange Programme of the National Foundation for India, New Delhi.
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Manas Chaudhuri is associated with a host of educational and cultural institutions of Shillong.
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Manas Chaudhuri has been the honorary secretary of the Rilbong PN Chaudhuri Secondary School, Shillong, uninterruptedly for 40 years and helped the school grow almost from a scratch to a position of respectability.
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Manas Chaudhuri is the president of the governing body of the Lady Keane Girls' Higher Secondary School.
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Manas Chaudhuri is a trustee of Sri Aurobindo Institute of Indian Culture.
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Manas Chaudhuri is a past district governor of Rotary International District 3240 and a past master of the Freemasons' Lodge.
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Manas Chaudhuri led a Rotary Friendship Mission to Bangladesh in 1996.
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Manas Chaudhuri was part of the prime minister's press entourage to Pakistan, Thailand, UK, Cuba, Philippines, Russia, Germany, Brazil and US with Dr Manmohan Singh.
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Manas Chaudhuri again lost the 2018 Meghalaya Legislative Assembly elections to Shullai, who this time was a BJP candidate.
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Manas Chaudhuri is the managing trustee of Ardhendu Chaudhuri Charitable Trust.
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Manas Chaudhuri is one of few elected public representatives in the country who donated all his earnings as MLA for serving the less fortunate.