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	Prannoy Roy was born in [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]] on 15 October 1949, to P. L. "Hurricane" Roy, a Bengali executive at a multinational corporation in the city.<ref name=":5">{{Cite news\|date=2004-04-19\|title=Smart People\|work=[[Business Standard]]\|publication-date=6 February 2013\|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/markets/smart-people-104041901078_1.html\|access-date=2021-06-29}}</ref> His paternal grandfather was [[Paresh Lal Roy]], a traffic superintendent and an amateur boxer, known as the "father of Indian boxing" for having popularised the sport in the country. Paresh Lal gave his grandson Prannoy the nickname of "Tempest" when he was a child.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web\|last=Kaushik\|first=Krishn\|date=1 December 2015\|title=The Tempest\|url=https://caravanmagazine.in/reportage/the-tempest-prannoy-radhika-roy-ndtv\|url-status=live\|access-date=2021-06-29\|website=[[The Caravan]]\|page=2\|language=en}}</ref>		Prannoy Roy was born in [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]] on 15 October 1949, to P. L. "Hurricane" Roy, a Bengali executive at a multinational corporation in the city.<ref name=":5">{{Cite news\|date=2004-04-19\|title=Smart People\|work=[[Business Standard]]\|publication-date=6 February 2013\|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/markets/smart-people-104041901078_1.html\|access-date=2021-06-29}}</ref> His paternal grandfather was [[Paresh Lal Roy]], a traffic superintendent and an amateur boxer, known as the "father of Indian boxing" for having popularised the sport in the country. Paresh Lal gave his grandson Prannoy the nickname of "Tempest" when he was a child.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web\|last=Kaushik\|first=Krishn\|date=1 December 2015\|title=The Tempest\|url=https://caravanmagazine.in/reportage/the-tempest-prannoy-radhika-roy-ndtv\|url-status=live\|access-date=2021-06-29\|website=[[The Caravan]]\|page=2\|language=en}}</ref>

	Roy was sent to [[The Doon School]], a boy's boarding school in Dehradun, [[Uttar Pradesh]]. He was at the boarding school during his teenage years when he met [[Radhika Das]], whom he would later marry.<ref name=":1" /> Radhika, the daughter of a Bengali engineer<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Mukherjee\|first=Ritwik\|date=2018-03-31\|title=Vanity Addresses\|url=https://mydigitalfc.com/fc-weekend/vanity-addresses\|url-status=live\|access-date=2021-06-24\|website=[[Financial Chronicle]]}}</ref> was also from the city of Calcutta and was sent to the [[Welham Girls' School]], another boarding school in Dehradun. <ref name=":1" />		Roy was sent to [[The Doon School]], a boy's boarding school in Dehradun, [[Uttar Pradesh]]. He was at the boarding school during his teenage years when he met [[Radhika Das]], whom he would later marry.<ref name=":1" /> Radhika, the daughter of a Bengali engineer<ref>{{Cite web\|last=Mukherjee\|first=Ritwik\|date=2018-03-31\|title=Vanity Addresses\|url=https://mydigitalfc.com/fc-weekend/vanity-addresses\|url-status=live\|access-date=2021-06-24\|website=[[Financial Chronicle]]}}</ref> was also from the city of Calcutta and was sent to the [[Welham Girls' School]], another boarding school in Dehradun.<ref name=":1" />

	Prannoy and Radhika moved to London, United Kingdom for their higher education.<ref name=":1" /> Prannoy had received a [[Haileybury and Imperial Service College]] scholarship to acquire the [[A-Level#India\|A-level]] higher secondary certificate.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web\|year=2019\|title=The Roy family\|url=https://india.mom-rsf.org/en/owners/individual-owners/detail/owner/owner/show/the-roy-family/\|url-status=live\|website=Media Ownership Monitor\|publisher=[[Reporters Without Borders]]}}</ref> Following his schooling, he enrolled at the [[Queen Mary University of London]] and graduated in 1973 with first class honours in economics.<ref name=":3">{{cite news\|title=Dr. Prannoy Roy\|work=[[BBC World]]\|url=http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickpage.asp?pageid=156\|access-date=1 December 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061028015407/http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickpage.asp?pageid=156\|archive-date=28 October 2006}}</ref> He then became a certified [[chartered accountant]] and a fellow of the [[Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales]] in 1975.<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":4" /> Prannoy and Radhika also got married in London and then returned to India, settling down in Delhi.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Forbes08Sep06_" />		Prannoy and Radhika moved to London, United Kingdom for their higher education.<ref name=":1" /> Prannoy had received a [[Haileybury and Imperial Service College]] scholarship to acquire the [[A-Level#India\|A-level]] higher secondary certificate.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web\|year=2019\|title=The Roy family\|url=https://india.mom-rsf.org/en/owners/individual-owners/detail/owner/owner/show/the-roy-family/\|url-status=live\|website=Media Ownership Monitor\|publisher=[[Reporters Without Borders]]}}</ref> Following his schooling, he enrolled at the [[Queen Mary University of London]] and graduated in 1973 with first class honours in economics.<ref name=":3">{{cite news\|title=Dr. Prannoy Roy\|work=[[BBC World]]\|url=http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickpage.asp?pageid=156\|access-date=1 December 2020\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061028015407/http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickpage.asp?pageid=156\|archive-date=28 October 2006}}</ref> He then became a certified [[chartered accountant]] and a fellow of the [[Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales]] in 1975.<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":4" /> Prannoy and Radhika also got married in London and then returned to India, settling down in Delhi.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Forbes08Sep06_" />
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	Prannoy Roy in the meantime worked as an [[associate professor]] for an year in 1985 at the Delhi School of Economics. In 1986–1987 he was hired in a team of economists to build a [[macro-econometric]] model of India for the [[Ministry of Finance (India)\|Ministry of Finance]], the model is the largest of its kind.<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":4" /> Doordarshan eventually contracted NDTV to cover the general election results and budget session specials.<ref name="Rodrigues-IndianNewsMedia71_" /> The first televised coverage of an election result in India was produced by NDTV for the [[1989 Indian general election]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Kaushik-IndiaMeansBusiness_" /> Roy began his career as a television journalist by covering the general election for Doordarshan. Following which, he also began appearing as a [[news presenter]] in ''The World This Week'' programme.<ref name=":5" /> Both the election results coverage and the international news show were widely successful.<ref name="Rodrigues-IndianNewsMedia71_" /> According to Roy, it was not difficult to appear good in comparison to Doordarshan which he described as more radio than television and that the time period was the most "newsiest" in television history.<ref>{{Cite journal\|year=2013\|editor-last=Painter\|editor-first=James\|title=India's Media Boom: The Good News and the Bad\|url=https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2017-12/India%E2%80%99s%20Media%20Boom%20the%20good%20news%20and%20the%20bad.pdf\|journal=[[Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism]]\|pages=1–19}}</ref>		Prannoy Roy in the meantime worked as an [[associate professor]] for an year in 1985 at the Delhi School of Economics. In 1986–1987 he was hired in a team of economists to build a [[macro-econometric]] model of India for the [[Ministry of Finance (India)\|Ministry of Finance]], the model is the largest of its kind.<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":4" /> Doordarshan eventually contracted NDTV to cover the general election results and budget session specials.<ref name="Rodrigues-IndianNewsMedia71_" /> The first televised coverage of an election result in India was produced by NDTV for the [[1989 Indian general election]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Kaushik-IndiaMeansBusiness_" /> Roy began his career as a television journalist by covering the general election for Doordarshan. Following which, he also began appearing as a [[news presenter]] in ''The World This Week'' programme.<ref name=":5" /> Both the election results coverage and the international news show were widely successful.<ref name="Rodrigues-IndianNewsMedia71_" /> According to Roy, it was not difficult to appear good in comparison to Doordarshan which he described as more radio than television and that the time period was the most "newsiest" in television history.<ref>{{Cite journal\|year=2013\|editor-last=Painter\|editor-first=James\|title=India's Media Boom: The Good News and the Bad\|url=https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2017-12/India%E2%80%99s%20Media%20Boom%20the%20good%20news%20and%20the%20bad.pdf\|journal=[[Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism]]\|pages=1–19}}</ref>

	NDTV requested for and received a contract from Doordarshan to produce a daily news bulletin on domestic affairs called ''The News Tonight'' on its second channel in 1995.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="ChannelingCultures160_">{{Cite book\|last1=Sen\|first1=Biswarup\|title=Channeling Cultures: Television Studies from India\|last2=Roy\|first2=Abhijit\|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]\|year=2014\|isbn=978-0-19-809205-6\|pages=160–165\|language=en\|via=[[Oxford Scholarship Online]]}}</ref> The Roys who were the promoters of the company sought and acquired investments from several Indian businesses for the company in order to produce the show,<ref name="ChannelingCultures160_" /> among its investors was the multinational [[Tata Group]].<ref name="Forbes08Sep06_">{{Cite news\|last=Karmali\|first=Naazneen\|date=8 September 2006\|title=News Delhi TV\|language=en\|work=[[Forbes]]\|url=https://www.forbes.com/global/2006/0918/034.html\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211071033if_/https://www.forbes.com/global/2006/0918/034.html?sh=4e73284a44d0\|archive-date=11 December 2020}}</ref> Later, the company also received contracts to produce shows such as ''The News Hour'' and ''Good Morning India'' for Doordarshan.<ref name="MakingOfStarIndia31_">{{Cite book\|last=Kohli-Khandekar\|first=Vanita\|title=The Making of Star India: The Amazing Story of Rupert Murdoch's India Adventure\|date=25 July 2019\|publisher=[[Penguin Random House]]\|isbn=978-93-5305-598-1\|pages=31–32\|language=en}}</ref> Prannoy Roy was the news presenter for the NDTV bulletins and became the face of the NDTV brand in the process.<ref name="Kaushik-IndiaMeansBusiness_" /><ref>{{Cite web\|last=Bajpai\|first=Shailaja\|date=24 July 2016\|title=The World Came Home: The history of television in India\|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/television/the-world-came-home-2932048/\|access-date=10 December 2020\|website=[[The Indian Express]]\|language=en}}</ref> His wife, Radhika Roy kept a low profile in comparison, being more invested in the editorial and production processes of the company.<ref name="Kaushik-IndiaMeansBusiness_" /><ref>{{Cite news\|date=30 December 2007\|title=Power Women\|language=en\|work=[[The Financial Express (India)\|The Financial Express]]\|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/archive/power-women/255634/}}</ref~~><ref name="Forbes08Sep06_" /~~>		NDTV requested for and received a contract from Doordarshan to produce a daily news bulletin on domestic affairs called ''The News Tonight'' on its second channel in 1995.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="ChannelingCultures160_">{{Cite book\|last1=Sen\|first1=Biswarup\|title=Channeling Cultures: Television Studies from India\|last2=Roy\|first2=Abhijit\|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]\|year=2014\|isbn=978-0-19-809205-6\|pages=160–165\|language=en\|via=[[Oxford Scholarship Online]]}}</ref> The Roys who were the promoters of the company sought and acquired investments from several Indian businesses for the company in order to produce the show,<ref name="ChannelingCultures160_" /> among its investors was the multinational [[Tata Group]].<ref name="Forbes08Sep06_">{{Cite news\|last=Karmali\|first=Naazneen\|date=8 September 2006\|title=News Delhi TV\|language=en\|work=[[Forbes]]\|url=https://www.forbes.com/global/2006/0918/034.html\|url-status=live\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211071033if_/https://www.forbes.com/global/2006/0918/034.html?sh=4e73284a44d0\|archive-date=11 December 2020}}</ref> Later, the company also received contracts to produce shows such as ''The News Hour'' and ''Good Morning India'' for Doordarshan.<ref name="MakingOfStarIndia31_">{{Cite book\|last=Kohli-Khandekar\|first=Vanita\|title=The Making of Star India: The Amazing Story of Rupert Murdoch's India Adventure\|date=25 July 2019\|publisher=[[Penguin Random House]]\|isbn=978-93-5305-598-1\|pages=31–32\|language=en}}</ref> Prannoy Roy was the news presenter for the NDTV bulletins and became the face of the NDTV brand in the process.<ref name="Kaushik-IndiaMeansBusiness_" /><ref>{{Cite web\|last=Bajpai\|first=Shailaja\|date=24 July 2016\|title=The World Came Home: The history of television in India\|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/television/the-world-came-home-2932048/\|access-date=10 December 2020\|website=[[The Indian Express]]\|language=en}}</ref> His wife, Radhika Roy kept a low profile in comparison, being more invested in the editorial and production processes of the company.<ref name="Forbes08Sep06_" /><ref name="Kaushik-IndiaMeansBusiness_" /><ref>{{Cite news\|date=30 December 2007\|title=Power Women\|language=en\|work=[[The Financial Express (India)\|The Financial Express]]\|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/archive/power-women/255634/}}</ref>

	In 1998, NDTV entered into a 5 year exclusive partnership with [[Star India]] to launch the country's first independent 24x7 news channel.<ref name="MakingOfStarIndia48_">{{Cite book\|last=Kohli-Khandekar\|first=Vanita\|title=The Making of Star India: The Amazing Story of Rupert Murdoch's India Adventure\|date=25 July 2019\|publisher=[[Penguin Random House]]\|isbn=978-93-5305-598-1\|pages=48–50\|language=en}}</ref> In the previous year, the incumbent director general of Doordarshan had also quit the public broadcaster and jointed it's multinational rival, the Star network. These developments created animosity in the government and a parliamentary committee was set up to scrutinise the activities of the former director general which alleged that there were "irregularities" in the contracts with NDTV.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Kaushik-IndiaMeansBusiness_" /> The [[Central Bureau of Investigation]] (CBI) filed a number of cases against former officials of the public broadcaster including the director general and against Prannoy Roy who was the managing director of NDTV.<ref>{{Cite web\|date=20 January 1998\|title=CBI case against Prannoy Roy\|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19980120/02051164.html\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100416181338/http://www.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19980120/02051164.html\|archive-date=16 April 2010\|access-date=10 December 2020\|website=[[The Indian Express]]\|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|date=1998-01-20\|title=CBI case against Prannoy Roy\|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/news-archive/cbi-case-against-prannoy-roy/\|url-status=live\|access-date=2021-06-29\|website=[[The Indian Express]]\|language=en}}</ref> The cases went on for several years in the form of a protracted conflict,<ref name="Kaushik-IndiaMeansBusiness_" /> until a court judgement in 2013 which acquitted all the accused of the charges, stating that there was no evidence of any wrongdoing.<ref name=":1" />		In 1998, NDTV entered into a 5 year exclusive partnership with [[Star India]] to launch the country's first independent 24x7 news channel.<ref name="MakingOfStarIndia48_">{{Cite book\|last=Kohli-Khandekar\|first=Vanita\|title=The Making of Star India: The Amazing Story of Rupert Murdoch's India Adventure\|date=25 July 2019\|publisher=[[Penguin Random House]]\|isbn=978-93-5305-598-1\|pages=48–50\|language=en}}</ref> In the previous year, the incumbent director general of Doordarshan had also quit the public broadcaster and jointed it's multinational rival, the Star network. These developments created animosity in the government and a parliamentary committee was set up to scrutinise the activities of the former director general which alleged that there were "irregularities" in the contracts with NDTV.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Kaushik-IndiaMeansBusiness_" /> The [[Central Bureau of Investigation]] (CBI) filed a number of cases against former officials of the public broadcaster including the director general and against Prannoy Roy who was the managing director of NDTV.<ref>{{Cite web\|date=20 January 1998\|title=CBI case against Prannoy Roy\|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19980120/02051164.html\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100416181338/http://www.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19980120/02051164.html\|archive-date=16 April 2010\|access-date=10 December 2020\|website=[[The Indian Express]]\|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|date=1998-01-20\|title=CBI case against Prannoy Roy\|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/news-archive/cbi-case-against-prannoy-roy/\|url-status=live\|access-date=2021-06-29\|website=[[The Indian Express]]\|language=en}}</ref> The cases went on for several years in the form of a protracted conflict,<ref name="Kaushik-IndiaMeansBusiness_" /> until a court judgement in 2013 which acquitted all the accused of the charges, stating that there was no evidence of any wrongdoing.<ref name=":1" />

	Radhika Roy who was the chairperson of the company became the managing director in 1998 and Prannoy Roy who was the managing director became the chairman.<ref name=":22">{{Cite web\|date=27 September 2012\|title=Notice\|url=https://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/corporatepage/images/NDTV12pagesnotice-proxy.pdf\|url-status=live\|publisher=[[NDTV]]}}</ref~~><ref name="Forbes08Sep06_" /~~> The partnership with Star India came to an end in 2003.<ref name="Paterson2004-114_">{{Cite book\|last1=Paterson\|first1=Chris A.\|title=International News in the 21st Century\|last2=Sreberny\|first2=Annabelle\|date=2004\|publisher=[[University of Luton Press]]\|isbn=978-1-86020-596-5\|pages=114–117\|language=en}}</ref> NDTV became an independent news broadcaster in the same year with the launch of two news channels [[NDTV 24x7]] and [[NDTV India]].<ref name="Kaushik-IndiaMeansBusiness_" /> The company went public in May 2004 and by the end of the year had the highest [[market capitalisation]] among media companies.<ref>{{Cite news\|last=Shirsat\|first=B. G.\|last2=Krishnakumar\|first2=Aparna\|date=2005-08-13\|title=Media industry valuations hit the roof\|work=[[Business Standard]]\|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/markets/media-industry-valuations-hit-the-roof-105081301005_1.html\|access-date=2021-06-29}}</ref> Roy along with his wife were designated as the executive co-chairpersons of NDTV after 2011.<ref name=":22" />		Radhika Roy who was the chairperson of the company became the managing director in 1998 and Prannoy Roy who was the managing director became the chairman.<ref name="Forbes08Sep06_" /><ref name=":22">{{Cite web\|date=27 September 2012\|title=Notice\|url=https://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/corporatepage/images/NDTV12pagesnotice-proxy.pdf\|url-status=live\|publisher=[[NDTV]]}}</ref> The partnership with Star India came to an end in 2003.<ref name="Paterson2004-114_">{{Cite book\|last1=Paterson\|first1=Chris A.\|title=International News in the 21st Century\|last2=Sreberny\|first2=Annabelle\|date=2004\|publisher=[[University of Luton Press]]\|isbn=978-1-86020-596-5\|pages=114–117\|language=en}}</ref> NDTV became an independent news broadcaster in the same year with the launch of two news channels [[NDTV 24x7]] and [[NDTV India]].<ref name="Kaushik-IndiaMeansBusiness_" /> The company went public in May 2004 and by the end of the year had the highest [[market capitalisation]] among media companies.<ref>{{Cite news\|last=Shirsat\|first=B. G.\|last2=Krishnakumar\|first2=Aparna\|date=2005-08-13\|title=Media industry valuations hit the roof\|work=[[Business Standard]]\|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/markets/media-industry-valuations-hit-the-roof-105081301005_1.html\|access-date=2021-06-29}}</ref> Roy along with his wife were designated as the executive co-chairpersons of NDTV after 2011.<ref name=":22" />

	NDTV started facing government pressure through litigations and intimidation of advertisers on the network after [[Narendra Modi]] became the Prime Minister in 2014. The pressure was noted to be a part of diminishing [[media freedom]] in the country with similar tactics used against uncooperative news publications.<ref name="NewYorkTimes02Apr20_">{{Cite news\|last1=Goel\|first1=Vindu\|last2=Gettleman\|first2=Jeffrey\|last3=Khandelwal\|first3=Saumya\|date=2 April 2020\|title=Under Modi, India's Press Is Not So Free Anymore\|language=en-US\|work=[[The New York Times]]\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/world/asia/modi-india-press-media.html\|access-date=16 December 2020\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The news network of NDTV had reported critically about state involvement in the [[2002 Gujarat riots]] where over a 1,000 people were killed.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news\|last=Subramanian\|first=N. Sundaresha\|date=2017-06-13\|title=NDTV raid: Of Prannoy Roy, freedom of the press and the business of media\|work=[[Business Standard]]\|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/ndtv-raid-of-prannoy-roy-freedom-of-the-press-and-the-business-of-media-117061200794_1.html\|access-date=2021-06-29}}</ref> The government attempted to ban the Hindi news channel [[NDTV India]] in 2016 and retracted following backlash including cross media protests from journalists.<ref name="DeutscheWelle07Nov16_">{{Cite news\|last=Krishnan\|first=Murali\|date=7 November 2016\|title='Ridiculous and arbitrary' – Indian journalists slam NDTV ban\|language=en-GB\|work=[[Deutsche Welle]]\|url=https://www.dw.com/en/ridiculous-and-arbitrary-indian-journalists-slam-ndtv-ban/a-36293627\|access-date=17 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|last=Venu\|first=M. K.\|date=8 November 2016\|title=The Creeping Erosion of Free Expression\|url=https://thewire.in/politics/creeping-erosion-free-expression\|access-date=18 December 2020\|website=[[The Wire (India)\|The Wire]]}}</ref> In 2017, the residence of the Roys at [[Greater Kailash]], Delhi were raided by the CBI,<ref name=":0" /> after a NDTV journalist had questioned statements made by a ruling party spokesperson.<ref>{{Cite news\|date=24 June 2017\|title=Falling in line: India's raucous democracy is becoming more subdued\|work=[[The Economist]]\|url=https://www.economist.com/asia/2017/06/24/indias-raucous-democracy-is-becoming-more-subdued\|access-date=16 December 2020\|issn=0013-0613}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book\|last1=Jaffrelot\|first1=Christophe\|title=Business and Politics in India\|last2=Kohli\|first2=Atul\|last3=Murali\|first3=Kanta\|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]\|year=2019\|isbn=978-0-19-091246-8\|pages=186\|language=en\|via=[[Oxford Scholarship Online]]}}</ref> The Editor's Guild of India and journalists unions called it an attack on press freedom.<ref name=":0" />		NDTV started facing government pressure through litigations and intimidation of advertisers on the network after [[Narendra Modi]] became the Prime Minister in 2014. The pressure was noted to be a part of diminishing [[media freedom]] in the country with similar tactics used against uncooperative news publications.<ref name="NewYorkTimes02Apr20_">{{Cite news\|last1=Goel\|first1=Vindu\|last2=Gettleman\|first2=Jeffrey\|last3=Khandelwal\|first3=Saumya\|date=2 April 2020\|title=Under Modi, India's Press Is Not So Free Anymore\|language=en-US\|work=[[The New York Times]]\|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/world/asia/modi-india-press-media.html\|access-date=16 December 2020\|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The news network of NDTV had reported critically about state involvement in the [[2002 Gujarat riots]] where over a 1,000 people were killed.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news\|last=Subramanian\|first=N. Sundaresha\|date=2017-06-13\|title=NDTV raid: Of Prannoy Roy, freedom of the press and the business of media\|work=[[Business Standard]]\|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/ndtv-raid-of-prannoy-roy-freedom-of-the-press-and-the-business-of-media-117061200794_1.html\|access-date=2021-06-29}}</ref> The government attempted to ban the Hindi news channel [[NDTV India]] in 2016 and retracted following backlash including cross media protests from journalists.<ref name="DeutscheWelle07Nov16_">{{Cite news\|last=Krishnan\|first=Murali\|date=7 November 2016\|title='Ridiculous and arbitrary' – Indian journalists slam NDTV ban\|language=en-GB\|work=[[Deutsche Welle]]\|url=https://www.dw.com/en/ridiculous-and-arbitrary-indian-journalists-slam-ndtv-ban/a-36293627\|access-date=17 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|last=Venu\|first=M. K.\|date=8 November 2016\|title=The Creeping Erosion of Free Expression\|url=https://thewire.in/politics/creeping-erosion-free-expression\|access-date=18 December 2020\|website=[[The Wire (India)\|The Wire]]}}</ref> In 2017, the residence of the Roys at [[Greater Kailash]], Delhi were raided by the CBI,<ref name=":0" /> after a NDTV journalist had questioned statements made by a ruling party spokesperson.<ref>{{Cite news\|date=24 June 2017\|title=Falling in line: India's raucous democracy is becoming more subdued\|work=[[The Economist]]\|url=https://www.economist.com/asia/2017/06/24/indias-raucous-democracy-is-becoming-more-subdued\|access-date=16 December 2020\|issn=0013-0613}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book\|last1=Jaffrelot\|first1=Christophe\|title=Business and Politics in India\|last2=Kohli\|first2=Atul\|last3=Murali\|first3=Kanta\|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]\|year=2019\|isbn=978-0-19-091246-8\|pages=186\|language=en\|via=[[Oxford Scholarship Online]]}}</ref> The Editor's Guild of India and journalists unions called it an attack on press freedom.<ref name=":0" />

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{{short description|Indian journalist and media personality}}
{{EngvarB|date=August 2013}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=January 2021}}{{Infobox person
| name = Prannoy Roy
| image = Secretaries Kerry and Pritzker sit for interview with NDTV host Prannoy Roy (cropped).jpg
| caption =
| birth_name = Prannoy Roy
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|10|15|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| alma_mater = {{Plainlist|
* [[University of London]] ([[BSc]])
* [[Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales]] ([[Chartered Accountant|CA]])
* [[Delhi School of Economics]] ([[PhD]])
}}
| occupation = Executive co-chairperson, [[NDTV]]
| spouse = [[Radhika Roy]]
| awards = [[Asian Television Award]]; [[Red Ink Awards]]
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'''Prannoy Roy''' (born 15 October 1949) is an Indian [[economist]], [[chartered accountant]], [[psephologist]], [[journalist]] and [[author]]. He is the executive co-chairperson of [[NDTV]] and is considered to be one of its co-founders, along with his wife [[Radhika Roy]]. NDTV was the first independent news network in India. Prannoy Roy is also credited for pioneering [[opinion polls]] in the country.

==Early life and education==
Prannoy Roy was born in [[Calcutta]], [[West Bengal]] on 15 October 1949, to P. L. "Hurricane" Roy, a Bengali executive at a multinational corporation in the city.<ref name=":5">{{Cite news|date=2004-04-19|title=Smart People|work=[[Business Standard]]|publication-date=6 February 2013|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/markets/smart-people-104041901078_1.html|access-date=2021-06-29}}</ref> His paternal grandfather was [[Paresh Lal Roy]], a traffic superintendent and an amateur boxer, known as the "father of Indian boxing" for having popularised the sport in the country. Paresh Lal gave his grandson Prannoy the nickname of "Tempest" when he was a child.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|last=Kaushik|first=Krishn|date=1 December 2015|title=The Tempest|url=https://caravanmagazine.in/reportage/the-tempest-prannoy-radhika-roy-ndtv|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-29|website=[[The Caravan]]|page=2|language=en}}</ref>

Roy was sent to [[The Doon School]], a boy's boarding school in Dehradun, [[Uttar Pradesh]]. He was at the boarding school during his teenage years when he met [[Radhika Das]], whom he would later marry.<ref name=":1" /> Radhika, the daughter of a Bengali engineer<ref>{{Cite web|last=Mukherjee|first=Ritwik|date=2018-03-31|title=Vanity Addresses|url=https://mydigitalfc.com/fc-weekend/vanity-addresses|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-24|website=[[Financial Chronicle]]}}</ref> was also from the city of Calcutta and was sent to the [[Welham Girls' School]], another boarding school in Dehradun. <ref name=":1" />

Prannoy and Radhika moved to London, United Kingdom for their higher education.<ref name=":1" /> Prannoy had received a [[Haileybury and Imperial Service College]] scholarship to acquire the [[A-Level#India|A-level]] higher secondary certificate.<ref name=":6">{{Cite web|year=2019|title=The Roy family|url=https://india.mom-rsf.org/en/owners/individual-owners/detail/owner/owner/show/the-roy-family/|url-status=live|website=Media Ownership Monitor|publisher=[[Reporters Without Borders]]}}</ref> Following his schooling, he enrolled at the [[Queen Mary University of London]] and graduated in 1973 with first class honours in economics.<ref name=":3">{{cite news|title=Dr. Prannoy Roy|work=[[BBC World]]|url=http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickpage.asp?pageid=156|access-date=1 December 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061028015407/http://www.bbcworld.com/content/template_clickpage.asp?pageid=156|archive-date=28 October 2006}}</ref> He then became a certified [[chartered accountant]] and a fellow of the [[Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales]] in 1975.<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":4" /> Prannoy and Radhika also got married in London and then returned to India, settling down in Delhi.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Forbes08Sep06_" />

[[File:Pranoy Roy on Clean Yamuna campaign.jpg|thumb|Pranoy Roy on Clean Yamuna campaign in Feb 2009]]
== Career ==
In India, Prannoy continued his studies at the [[Delhi School of Economics]] from where he attained a [[PhD]] in [[agricultural economics]] in 1978.<ref name=":3" /> Following his doctorate, Roy became a consultant at [[PricewaterhouseCoopers|PricewaterhouseCoopers India]] where he worked from 1979 till 1983.<ref name=":4">{{cite web|title=Prannoy Roy|url=https://www.weforum.org/people/prannoy-roy/|url-status=live|access-date=29 June 2021|website=[[World Economic Forum]]}}</ref> Roy is described to have been passionate about election results since his childhood and had produced his first election forecast for the [[1977 Indian general election]]. The forecast was published by the ''Mainstream'' magazine and had predicted a victory for the [[Janata Party]].<ref name=":5" /> In the 1980s, he began collaborated with the Oxford political scientist [[David Butler (psephologist)|David Butler]] and Indian economist [[Ashok Lahiri]] in an effort to mainstream the field of psephology in India. The collaboration produced three book and Roy became an election analysts for the ''[[India Today]]'' magazine.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|last=Vardhan|first=Anand|date=20 May 2019|title=Prannoy Roy and Dorab Sopariwala’s new book chronicles change and continuity in India’s electoral scene|url=https://www.newslaundry.com/2019/03/20/prannoy-roy-and-dorab-sopariwalas-new-book-chronicles-change-and-continuity-in-indias-electoral-scene|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-29|website=[[Newslaundry]]}}</ref> For the [[1984 Indian general election]], Roy produced an extremely accurate election forecast which predicted an [[Indian National Congress]] victory with 400 seats. The prediction earned him the reputation of being the most successful psephologist in India.<ref name=":5" /> Roy is credited for pioneering opinion polling in India between 1980 and 1995.<ref name=":4" />

[[New Delhi Television Ltd]] (NDTV) was founded in 1984 as a production firm for international news broadcasters and the public service broadcaster [[Doordarshan]].<ref name="Shrivastava2010-p36_">{{Cite book|last=Shrivastava|first=K M|title=Broadcast Journalism in the 21st Century|publisher=[[Sterling Publishing]]|year=2010|isbn=978-81-207-3597-2|pages=36–37|language=en}}</ref><ref name="Rodrigues-IndianNewsMedia71_">{{Cite book|last1=Rodrigues|first1=Usha M.|title=Indian News Media: From Observer to Participant|last2=Ranganathan|first2=Maya|publisher=[[SAGE Publications]]|year=2014|isbn=978-93-5150-464-1|page=71|language=en|ref=Indian News Media 2014}}</ref> Radhika and Prannoy Roy are considered to be the co-founders of the company,<ref name="Rodrigues-IndianNewsMedia71_" /> however Prannoy states that Radhika was the original founder as he joined the company later. Radhika Roy was working as a journalist at ''[[The Indian Express]]'' and then at the ''[[India Today]]'' magazine before becoming the founder of NDTV.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Kaushik|first=Krishn|date=1 December 2015|title=The Tempest|url=https://caravanmagazine.in/reportage/the-tempest-prannoy-radhika-roy-ndtv|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-29|website=[[The Caravan]]|page=1|language=en}}</ref> Doordarshan was initially wary of allowing private production houses to cover domestic news, and NDTV was contracted to produce a weekly international news programme called ''The World This Week'' for the public broadcaster.<ref name=":1" /> The weekly was instant success among its Indian audience and attained one of the highest viewerships on Doordarshan.<ref name="Kaushik-IndiaMeansBusiness_">{{Cite book|last1=Kaushik|first1=Kshama|title=India Means Business: How the elephant earned its stripes|last2=Dutta|first2=Kaushik|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=2012|isbn=978-0-19-908851-5|pages=277–281|language=en|doi=10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198072614.001.0001|via=[[Oxford Scholarship Online]]}}</ref><ref name="Batabya-MakingNewsInIndia_">{{Cite book|last=Batabyal|first=Somnath|title=Making News in India: Star News and Star Ananda|publisher=[[Routledge]]|year=2014|isbn=978-1-317-80972-2|pages=44|language=en}}</ref>

Prannoy Roy in the meantime worked as an [[associate professor]] for an year in 1985 at the Delhi School of Economics. In 1986–1987 he was hired in a team of economists to build a [[macro-econometric]] model of India for the [[Ministry of Finance (India)|Ministry of Finance]], the model is the largest of its kind.<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":4" /> Doordarshan eventually contracted NDTV to cover the general election results and budget session specials.<ref name="Rodrigues-IndianNewsMedia71_" /> The first televised coverage of an election result in India was produced by NDTV for the [[1989 Indian general election]].<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Kaushik-IndiaMeansBusiness_" /> Roy began his career as a television journalist by covering the general election for Doordarshan. Following which, he also began appearing as a [[news presenter]] in ''The World This Week'' programme.<ref name=":5" /> Both the election results coverage and the international news show were widely successful.<ref name="Rodrigues-IndianNewsMedia71_" /> According to Roy, it was not difficult to appear good in comparison to Doordarshan which he described as more radio than television and that the time period was the most "newsiest" in television history.<ref>{{Cite journal|year=2013|editor-last=Painter|editor-first=James|title=India's Media Boom: The Good News and the Bad|url=https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/2017-12/India%E2%80%99s%20Media%20Boom%20the%20good%20news%20and%20the%20bad.pdf|journal=[[Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism]]|pages=1–19}}</ref>

NDTV requested for and received a contract from Doordarshan to produce a daily news bulletin on domestic affairs called ''The News Tonight'' on its second channel in 1995.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="ChannelingCultures160_">{{Cite book|last1=Sen|first1=Biswarup|title=Channeling Cultures: Television Studies from India|last2=Roy|first2=Abhijit|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=2014|isbn=978-0-19-809205-6|pages=160–165|language=en|via=[[Oxford Scholarship Online]]}}</ref> The Roys who were the promoters of the company sought and acquired investments from several Indian businesses for the company in order to produce the show,<ref name="ChannelingCultures160_" /> among its investors was the multinational [[Tata Group]].<ref name="Forbes08Sep06_">{{Cite news|last=Karmali|first=Naazneen|date=8 September 2006|title=News Delhi TV|language=en|work=[[Forbes]]|url=https://www.forbes.com/global/2006/0918/034.html|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201211071033if_/https://www.forbes.com/global/2006/0918/034.html?sh=4e73284a44d0|archive-date=11 December 2020}}</ref> Later, the company also received contracts to produce shows such as ''The News Hour'' and ''Good Morning India'' for Doordarshan.<ref name="MakingOfStarIndia31_">{{Cite book|last=Kohli-Khandekar|first=Vanita|title=The Making of Star India: The Amazing Story of Rupert Murdoch's India Adventure|date=25 July 2019|publisher=[[Penguin Random House]]|isbn=978-93-5305-598-1|pages=31–32|language=en}}</ref> Prannoy Roy was the news presenter for the NDTV bulletins and became the face of the NDTV brand in the process.<ref name="Kaushik-IndiaMeansBusiness_" /><ref>{{Cite web|last=Bajpai|first=Shailaja|date=24 July 2016|title=The World Came Home: The history of television in India|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/television/the-world-came-home-2932048/|access-date=10 December 2020|website=[[The Indian Express]]|language=en}}</ref> His wife, Radhika Roy kept a low profile in comparison, being more invested in the editorial and production processes of the company.<ref name="Kaushik-IndiaMeansBusiness_" /><ref>{{Cite news|date=30 December 2007|title=Power Women|language=en|work=[[The Financial Express (India)|The Financial Express]]|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/archive/power-women/255634/}}</ref><ref name="Forbes08Sep06_" />

In 1998, NDTV entered into a 5 year exclusive partnership with [[Star India]] to launch the country's first independent 24x7 news channel.<ref name="MakingOfStarIndia48_">{{Cite book|last=Kohli-Khandekar|first=Vanita|title=The Making of Star India: The Amazing Story of Rupert Murdoch's India Adventure|date=25 July 2019|publisher=[[Penguin Random House]]|isbn=978-93-5305-598-1|pages=48–50|language=en}}</ref> In the previous year, the incumbent director general of Doordarshan had also quit the public broadcaster and jointed it's multinational rival, the Star network. These developments created animosity in the government and a parliamentary committee was set up to scrutinise the activities of the former director general which alleged that there were "irregularities" in the contracts with NDTV.<ref name=":1" /><ref name="Kaushik-IndiaMeansBusiness_" /> The [[Central Bureau of Investigation]] (CBI) filed a number of cases against former officials of the public broadcaster including the director general and against Prannoy Roy who was the managing director of NDTV.<ref>{{Cite web|date=20 January 1998|title=CBI case against Prannoy Roy|url=http://www.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19980120/02051164.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100416181338/http://www.indianexpress.com/ie/daily/19980120/02051164.html|archive-date=16 April 2010|access-date=10 December 2020|website=[[The Indian Express]]|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=1998-01-20|title=CBI case against Prannoy Roy|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/news-archive/cbi-case-against-prannoy-roy/|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-29|website=[[The Indian Express]]|language=en}}</ref> The cases went on for several years in the form of a protracted conflict,<ref name="Kaushik-IndiaMeansBusiness_" /> until a court judgement in 2013 which acquitted all the accused of the charges, stating that there was no evidence of any wrongdoing.<ref name=":1" />

Radhika Roy who was the chairperson of the company became the managing director in 1998 and Prannoy Roy who was the managing director became the chairman.<ref name=":22">{{Cite web|date=27 September 2012|title=Notice|url=https://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/corporatepage/images/NDTV12pagesnotice-proxy.pdf|url-status=live|publisher=[[NDTV]]}}</ref><ref name="Forbes08Sep06_" /> The partnership with Star India came to an end in 2003.<ref name="Paterson2004-114_">{{Cite book|last1=Paterson|first1=Chris A.|title=International News in the 21st Century|last2=Sreberny|first2=Annabelle|date=2004|publisher=[[University of Luton Press]]|isbn=978-1-86020-596-5|pages=114–117|language=en}}</ref> NDTV became an independent news broadcaster in the same year with the launch of two news channels [[NDTV 24x7]] and [[NDTV India]].<ref name="Kaushik-IndiaMeansBusiness_" /> The company went public in May 2004 and by the end of the year had the highest [[market capitalisation]] among media companies.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Shirsat|first=B. G.|last2=Krishnakumar|first2=Aparna|date=2005-08-13|title=Media industry valuations hit the roof|work=[[Business Standard]]|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/markets/media-industry-valuations-hit-the-roof-105081301005_1.html|access-date=2021-06-29}}</ref> Roy along with his wife were designated as the executive co-chairpersons of NDTV after 2011.<ref name=":22" />

NDTV started facing government pressure through litigations and intimidation of advertisers on the network after [[Narendra Modi]] became the Prime Minister in 2014. The pressure was noted to be a part of diminishing [[media freedom]] in the country with similar tactics used against uncooperative news publications.<ref name="NewYorkTimes02Apr20_">{{Cite news|last1=Goel|first1=Vindu|last2=Gettleman|first2=Jeffrey|last3=Khandelwal|first3=Saumya|date=2 April 2020|title=Under Modi, India's Press Is Not So Free Anymore|language=en-US|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/world/asia/modi-india-press-media.html|access-date=16 December 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The news network of NDTV had reported critically about state involvement in the [[2002 Gujarat riots]] where over a 1,000 people were killed.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Subramanian|first=N. Sundaresha|date=2017-06-13|title=NDTV raid: Of Prannoy Roy, freedom of the press and the business of media|work=[[Business Standard]]|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/ndtv-raid-of-prannoy-roy-freedom-of-the-press-and-the-business-of-media-117061200794_1.html|access-date=2021-06-29}}</ref> The government attempted to ban the Hindi news channel [[NDTV India]] in 2016 and retracted following backlash including cross media protests from journalists.<ref name="DeutscheWelle07Nov16_">{{Cite news|last=Krishnan|first=Murali|date=7 November 2016|title='Ridiculous and arbitrary' – Indian journalists slam NDTV ban|language=en-GB|work=[[Deutsche Welle]]|url=https://www.dw.com/en/ridiculous-and-arbitrary-indian-journalists-slam-ndtv-ban/a-36293627|access-date=17 December 2020}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Venu|first=M. K.|date=8 November 2016|title=The Creeping Erosion of Free Expression|url=https://thewire.in/politics/creeping-erosion-free-expression|access-date=18 December 2020|website=[[The Wire (India)|The Wire]]}}</ref> In 2017, the residence of the Roys at [[Greater Kailash]], Delhi were raided by the CBI,<ref name=":0" /> after a NDTV journalist had questioned statements made by a ruling party spokesperson.<ref>{{Cite news|date=24 June 2017|title=Falling in line: India's raucous democracy is becoming more subdued|work=[[The Economist]]|url=https://www.economist.com/asia/2017/06/24/indias-raucous-democracy-is-becoming-more-subdued|access-date=16 December 2020|issn=0013-0613}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Jaffrelot|first1=Christophe|title=Business and Politics in India|last2=Kohli|first2=Atul|last3=Murali|first3=Kanta|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]]|year=2019|isbn=978-0-19-091246-8|pages=186|language=en|via=[[Oxford Scholarship Online]]}}</ref> The Editor's Guild of India and journalists unions called it an attack on press freedom.<ref name=":0" />

In 2019, Prannoy Roy collaborated with the psephologist <bdi>Dorab Sopariwala and published a book called ''The Verdict: Decoding India’s Elections.''</bdi><ref name=":2" /> Meanwhile the litigations surrounding NDTV continued and in June, the [[Securities and Exchange Board of India]] (SEBI) barred Prannoy and Radhika Roy from holding managerial or board positions in the company for a period of 2 years over alleged withholding of information in loan agreements.<ref>{{Cite news|others=Special Correspondent|date=14 June 2019|title=SEBI bars Prannoy, Radhika Roy from NDTV board|language=en-IN|work=[[The Hindu]]|url=https://www.thehindu.com/business/markets/sebi-bars-prannoy-radhika-roy-from-ndtv-board/article27943165.ece|access-date=17 December 2020|issn=0971-751X}}</ref> The order was appealed against and stayed by the Securities Appellate Tribunal (SAT).<ref>{{Cite news|last=Modak|first=Samie|date=2019-06-18|title=SAT stays Sebi's order asking Prannoy, Radhika to step down from NDTV|work=[[Business Standard]]|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/current-affairs/sat-stays-sebi-s-order-asking-prannoy-radhika-to-step-down-from-ndtv-119061801169_1.html|access-date=2021-06-25}}</ref> In December 2020, SEBI imposed a fine on the Roys worth {{INRConvert|27|c}}.<ref>{{Cite web|date=25 December 2020|title=SEBI fines NDTV’s Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy Rs 27 crore for ‘violating regulatory norms’|url=https://scroll.in/latest/982267/sebi-fines-ndtvs-prannoy-roy-and-radhika-roy-rs-27-crore-for-violating-regulatory-norms|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-25|website=[[Scroll.in]]|language=en-US}}</ref> SAT directed the Roys to deposit 50% of the sum as conditional to a second hearing.<ref>{{Cite web|date=11 January 2021|title=SAT directs NDTV’s Prannoy and Radhika Roy to deposit ₹8.5 crore before it hears them further|url=https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/markets/sat-directs-ndvts-prannoy-and-radhika-roy-to-deposit-85-crore-before-it-hears-them-further/article33551661.ece|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-25|website=[[Business Line]]|language=en}}</ref> The company moved to the [[Supreme Court of India]] (SCI) which exempted them from the deposits.<ref>{{Cite web|date=15 February 2021|title=NDTV’s Prannoy, Radhika Roy exempted from making deposit for hearing appeals against SEBI penalty|url=https://scroll.in/latest/986987/ndtvs-prannoy-radhika-roy-exempted-from-making-deposit-for-hearing-appeals-against-sebi-penalty|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-25|website=[[Scroll.in]]|language=en-US}}</ref> Justice [[Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud]] remarked that it was "brash" for the tribunal to have demanded it.<ref>{{Cite web|date=26 May 2021|title=Supreme Court stays recovery of Rs 27 crore penalty imposed by SEBI on Radhika Roy, Prannoy Roy|url=https://www.newslaundry.com/2021/03/26/supreme-court-stays-recovery-of-rs-27-crore-penalty-imposed-by-sebi-on-radhika-roy-prannoy-roy|url-status=live|access-date=2021-06-25|website=[[Newslaundry]]}}</ref>

== Awards ==
His academic awards include the [[Leverhulme Trust]] (UK) Fellowship, Queen Mary Prize for results at BSc and an OPOS Scholarship at the Doon School to study at Haileybury College.

He won the [[Red Ink Awards|Red Ink]] award by Mumbai Press Club for lifetime achievement for his consistent and pioneering contribution to news television and his service to journalism in 2015.<ref>{{cite news|last1=PTI|date=26 April 2015|title=NDTV's Prannoy Roy bags RedInk award for lifetime achievement|work=Business Standard India|url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/ndtv-s-prannoy-roy-bags-redink-award-for-lifetime-achievement-115042600231_1.html|access-date=23 August 2020}}</ref>

== Bibliography ==

* {{Cite book|last=Butler|first=David|url=|title=A Compendium of Indian Elections|last2=Lahiri|first2=Ashok|last3=Roy|first3=Prannoy|date=1984|publisher=Arnold-Heinemann|isbn=978-0-391-03200-2|language=en|author-link=David Butler (psephologist)|author-link2=Ashok Lahiri}}
* {{Cite book|last=Butler|first=David|title=India Decides: Elections 1952–1989|last2=Lahiri|first2=Ashok|last3=Roy|first3=Prannoy|date=1989|publisher=[[Living Media India]]|language=en|author-link=David Butler (psephologist)|author-link2=Ashok Lahiri}}
* {{Cite book|last=Butler|first=David|title=India Decides: Elections 1952–1995|last2=Lahiri|first2=Ashok|last3=Roy|first3=Prannoy|date=1995|publisher=Books & Things|isbn=978-81-900612-0-9|language=en|author-link=David Butler (psephologist)|author-link2=Ashok Lahiri}}
* {{Cite book|last=Roy|first=Prannoy|title=The Verdict: Decoding India's Elections|last2=Sopariwala|first2=Dorab R.|date=2019|publisher=[[Vintage Books]]|isbn=978-0-670-09226-0|language=en}}

== References ==
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==External links==
* {{Twitter|PrannoyRoyNDTV}}
* [http://www.ndtv.com/convergence/ndtv/corporatepage/board_dir.aspx?dir=prannoy_roy Profile at NDTV]

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