Shekhar Gupta

Shekhar Gupta (born 26 August 1957) is an Indian journalist and author. He is the founder and the current editor-in-chief of ''ThePrint''. He is also a columnist for the ''Business Standard'' and pens a weekly column which appears every Saturday.

He has had long stints at ''The Indian Express'' and ''India Today''. Gupta writes a weekly column called "National Interest" for ''India Today'' magazine. His "National Interest" columns for ''The Indian Express'' were collected in his 2014 book ''Anticipating India''. He also hosted an interview-based television show ''Walk the Talk'' on NDTV 24x7. He 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. Provided by Wikipedia