1. Shekhar Gupta was born on 26 August 1957 and is an Indian journalist and author.
16 Facts About Shekhar Gupta
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Shekhar Gupta is the founder and the current editor-in-chief of ThePrint.
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Shekhar Gupta is a columnist for the Business Standard and pens a weekly column which appears every Saturday.
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Shekhar Gupta has had long stints at The Indian Express and India Today.
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Shekhar Gupta hosted an interview-based television show Walk the Talk on NDTV 24x7.
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Shekhar Gupta was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2009 by the Government of India for his contribution to journalism and was elected President of the Editor's Guild of India in 2018.
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Shekhar Gupta initially studied for three years in Saraswati Shishu Mandir in Palwal, then in Punjab.
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Shekhar Gupta completed his Bachelor of Journalism degree at Panjab University.
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Shekhar Gupta started his career as a journalist working for The Indian Express in 1977.
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Shekhar Gupta worked there for 6 years and then resigned to join India Today where he covered Operation Bluestar, the Nellie Massacre in Assam and the Gulf War in 1991.
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Shekhar Gupta then rejoined The Indian Express as editor-in-chief and CEO, where he worked for 19 years from 1996 to 2015.
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Shekhar Gupta hosted the show, "Walk The Talk with Shekhar Gupta" for NDTV for 15 years in which he talked to over 600 guests.
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Shekhar Gupta resigned from Indian Express in 2014 and joined India Today for a brief period of 2 months.
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Shekhar Gupta has stated that the mission for ThePrint is to be "factual and liberal".
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Shekhar Gupta was awarded Padma Bhushan by the then Indian Government in 2009 for his contribution to journalism.
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Shekhar Gupta was furthermore awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science degree from Thapar University in 2013.