View: Importance of process reform
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The central government has been systematically reforming the processes of governance in...
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Kanchan Gupta a veteran Journalist, Political affairs Analyst, Television Commentator and Blogger. He is Senior Advisor, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India.
In 1982, he joined The Telegraph as a sub-editor on the news desk, where he learned editing from M.J. Akbar. In 1987, he was invited to join The Statesman by the paper's then-editor, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray. He became the youngest Assistant Editor in The Statesman’s history.
In 1991, he moved to Delhi with a new assignment as Assistant Editor of The Pioneer, then edited by Vinod Mehta. He was promoted to Deputy Editor in 1994.
In December 1995, he gave up full-time journalism to assist Lal Krishna Advani and Atal Bihari Vajpayee in their parliamentary work. He was Director of the nascent Syama Prasad Mookerjee Research Foundation then headed by Jaswant Singh.
As an official in the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) when the NDA came to power, he worked in close association with National Security Advisor Brajesh Mishra on foreign affairs and security issues. He was the PMO’s representative on the National Security Advisory Board.
As part of the Government’s public diplomacy initiative in Arab countries, and to engage and influence opinion-makers and the intelligentsia in the Middle East, Kanchan Gupta was sent to Egypt as director of Maulana Azad Centre for Indian Culture in Cairo.
He held this post till 2004 when he was appointed Director of Indira Gandhi Centre for Indian Culture at Port Louis, Mauritius.
Due to personal reasons he declined the new assignment and returned India and full time journalism in 2004 as Associate Editor of The Pioneer, edited by Chandan Mitra. He became actively involved with India Foundation, headed by Ram Madhav, and produced the first comprehensive report on Maoist terror in Chhattisgarh.
In 2012 he joined Niti Digital as Editorial Director and launched the trail-blazing, first of its kind multi-media platform Niti Central and India’s first 24x7 Internet radio, NWR Live.
Due to personal reasons he declined the new assignment and returned India and full time journalism in 2004 as Associate Editor of The Pioneer, edited by Chandan Mitra. He became actively involved with India Foundation, headed by Ram Madhav, and produced the first comprehensive report on Maoist terror in Chhattisgarh.
In 2012 he joined Niti Digital as Editorial Director and launched the trail-blazing, first of its kind multi-media platform Niti Central and India’s first 24x7 Internet radio, NWR Live.
Two years later, in the summer of 2014, he joined ABP News as Commissioning Editor and Commentator.
Subsequently he served as Chairman of Raja Rammohun Roy Library Foundation, Kolkata, and as a Distinguished Fellow at Observer Research Foundation, New Delhi, till he returned to Government of India as Senior Advisor in June 2021.
Kanchan Gupta grew up in Jamshedpur. He studied at Loyola School, Jamshedpur; St Michael’s High School, Patna; St Xavier’s College (now St Xavier’s University), Kolkata.
He lives with his lifelong partner Nandini Gupta in the National Capital Region.
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