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{{Infobox person
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| birth_name = Uday Mahurkar
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1962|9|28}}
| birth_place = [[Indore]], [[Madhya Pradesh]], [[India]]
| nationality = Indian
| occupation = Writer
| years_active = 1983 – present
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'''Uday Mahurkar''' (born 28 September 1962) is an Indian journalist, political analyst and author. He was a deputy editor at the [[India Today]] group.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.dailyo.in/user/63/udaymahurkar|title=Uday Mahurkar|website=Daily O|access-date=19 August 2018}} - {{cite web|url=https://www.indiatoday.in/topic/Uday-Mahurkar |title=Uday Mahurkar articles |website=India Today |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20180819151534/https://www.indiatoday.in/topic/Uday-Mahurkar |archivedate=19 August 2018 |accessdate=15 April 2023}}</ref> In October 2020, he was appointed as the Information Commissioner by the [[Government of India]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/india/cic-ic-yashvardhan-kumar-sinha-uday-mahurkar-6909330/|title=Govt set to name CIC, two ICs, despite Opp dissent note |author=Manoj C G , Shyamlal Yadav |work=The Indian Express |accessdate=15 April 2023}} - {{Cite web|url=https://thewire.in/government/cic-appointments-bjp-uday-mahurkar|title=Modi-Led Panel Appoints 'BJP Supporter' Journalist as Information Commissioner, Opposition Protests|website=The Wire }} - {{Cite web|url=https://scroll.in/latest/977169/centre-to-appoint-yashvardhan-sinha-new-chief-information-commissioner-amid-oppositions-dissent|title=Centre to appoint Yashvardhan Sinha as new Chief Information Commissioner amid Opposition's dissent |website=Scroll }}</ref>

== Early life ==
Mahurkar was born in [[Indore]], [[Madhya Pradesh]]. His family moved to Gujarat after independence. He was educated in [[Baroda]], a former [[Maratha Empire|Maratha]] [[Princely state]]. He graduated in [[Indian History and Culture Society|Indian history and culture]] and archaeology from [[Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda|Maharaja Sayajirao University]] in 1983 and joined ''[[The Indian Express]]'' in the same year as a sub-editor at [[Ahmedabad]].{{citation needed}}

In 2017, Mahurkar wrote the book ''Marching with a Billion'' about the model of [[Narendra Modi]]'s governance as prime minister.<ref>{{cite web |title=Marching with a Billion: Analysing Narendra Modi's Government at Midterm|url=http://www.freepressjournal.in/weekend/marching-with-a-billion-analysing-narendra-modis-government-at-midterm-by-uday-mahurkar/1120326 |website=Free Press Journal |author=Stanley Coutinho |accessdate=15 April 2023}}</ref> The book's foreword was written by the economist Professor [[Klaus Schwab]], the founder and architect of the [[World Economic Forum]].

== Books ==
*''Marching with a Billion'' published by Penguin Random House India<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.financialexpress.com/india-news/new-book-on-pm-narendra-modi-marching-with-a-billion-released/762587/|title=New book on PM Narendra Modi, Marching with a Billion released|work=The Financial Express |agency=Indo-Asian News Service |access-date=19 August 2018}} - {{cite web |title=New book analyses three years of Modi government |url=https://www.business-standard.com/article/news-ians/new-book-analyses-three-years-of-modi-government-117061500914_1.html |website=Business Standard |accessdate=19 August 2018}} - {{Cite book|title=Marching with a billion : analysing Narendra Modi's government at midterm |author=Uday Mahurkar |isbn=9780670089208|publisher=Penguin/Viking |oclc=989811564}} with foreword by Klaus Schwab</ref>
*''Centrestage'' published by Random House India<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.moneylife.in/article/centrestage-by-uday-mahurkar-book-review/37398.html |title=Centrestage by Uday Mahurkar: Book Review |author=Debashis Basu |work=Moneylife |accessdate=15 April 2023}} - {{Cite book|title=Centrestage : inside the Narendra Modi model of governance|author=Uday Mahurkar |isbn=9788184005141 |publisher=Random House |location=Gurgaon|oclc=881605199|year = 2014}}</ref>
*''Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Could Have Prevented Partition'' (2021) published by Rupa Publication India {{ISBN|9789355200488}}

== References ==
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== External links ==
*[https://twitter.com/UdayMahurkar ''Twitter'' account]
*[https://www.facebook.com/udaymahurkarsalunke ''Facebook'']
*{{Cite web |author=Nidhi Kumar|title=Uday Mahurkar in conversation with DD National Anchor Nidhi Kumar|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHCgYofBAvo|access-date=19 August 2018|via=YouTube}}
*{{cite web|url=http://blogs.intoday.in/businesstoday/blogger/uday-mahurkar-2171.html|title=Uday Mahurkar |website=Business Today Blogs |access-date=19 August 2018}}

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Vishnu medpalli at 03:01, 30 March 2023