Uday Mahurkar

Uday Mahurkar (born 28 September 1962) is an Indian journalist, political analyst and author. He was a deputy editor at the India Today group.[1] In October 2020, he was appointed as the Information Commissioner by the Government of India.[2]

Uday Mahurkar
Born
Uday Mahurkar

(1962-09-28) September 28, 1962 (age 62)
NationalityIndian
OccupationWriter
Years active1983 – present

Early lifeEdit

Mahurkar was born in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. His family moved to Gujarat after independence. He was educated in Baroda, a former Maratha Princely state. He graduated in Indian history and culture and archaeology from 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.[3] The book's foreword was written by the economist Professor Klaus Schwab, the founder and architect of the World Economic Forum.

BooksEdit

  • Marching with a Billion published by Penguin Random House India[4]
  • Centrestage published by Random House India[5]
  • Veer Savarkar: The Man Who Could Have Prevented Partition (2021) published by Rupa Publication India ISBN 9789355200488

ReferencesEdit

  1. "Uday Mahurkar". Daily O. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
    - "Uday Mahurkar articles". India Today. Archived from the original on 19 August 2018. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
  2. Manoj C G , Shyamlal Yadav. "Govt set to name CIC, two ICs, despite Opp dissent note". The Indian Express. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
    - "Modi-Led Panel Appoints 'BJP Supporter' Journalist as Information Commissioner, Opposition Protests". The Wire.
    - "Centre to appoint Yashvardhan Sinha as new Chief Information Commissioner amid Opposition's dissent". Scroll.
  3. Stanley Coutinho. "Marching with a Billion: Analysing Narendra Modi's Government at Midterm". Free Press Journal. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
  4. "New book on PM Narendra Modi, Marching with a Billion released". The Financial Express. Indo-Asian News Service. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
    - "New book analyses three years of Modi government". Business Standard. Retrieved 19 August 2018.
    - Uday Mahurkar. Marching with a billion : analysing Narendra Modi's government at midterm. Penguin/Viking. ISBN 9780670089208. OCLC 989811564. with foreword by Klaus Schwab
  5. Debashis Basu. "Centrestage by Uday Mahurkar: Book Review". Moneylife. Retrieved 15 April 2023.
    - Uday Mahurkar (2014). Centrestage : inside the Narendra Modi model of governance. Gurgaon: Random House. ISBN 9788184005141. OCLC 881605199.

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