K Nageshwar

K. Nageshwar is a former member of the Telangana Legislative Council and professor in the Department of Communication & Journalism, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India.He served on the United Andhra Pradesh Legislative Council from 2007 to till the bifurcation of the State in 2014. He is the editor of The Hans India, English Daily. He is also the Editor-in-Chief of popular Telugu news channel HMTV. He is the author of the book Interpreting Contemporary India. He won the elections to the legislative Council from the Graduates’ Constituency of Hyderabad, Mahabubnagar and Ranga Reddy districts first in 2007 and subsequently in 2009. Contesting as an Independent Candidate, he defeated the candidates belonging to the major political parties.

Earlier, he worked with Indian Express and the Times of India groups. During the last three decades of journalistic experience, he published articles in the leading newspapers/magazines like The Hindu, The Indian Express, Deccan Chronicle, The Pioneer, The Economic Times, Outlook, Frontline, Economic & Political weekly, etc. He also commented on various channels like NDTV, CNN-IBN, Headlines Today, STAR TV, ZEE NEWS, AAJ TAK, Al Jazeera etc., on the regional developments. He regularly comments on Telugu channels on wide-ranging issues of contemporary nature. He was the founder Chairman of 10TV, a Telugu news Channel. He is on the Advisory Board of Global Media Journal (Indian Edition), Leading websites like Ibnlive.in.com, Indiatimes.com, etc., also published his articles.

He is a prolific public speaker and writer. He is on the guest faculty of Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani (Hyderabad),National Police Academy, National Academy of Administration, Mussorie, Dr MCR Institute of Human Resources Development and many journalism schools. He also published in many national and international media Journals. He is basically an electronics graduate and later took postgraduate degree in Journalism and a Doctorate in Political Science and extensively commented on contemporary economic issues including live analysis of Union and State Budgets on television. He acquired reputation as a prominent political analyst and social critique.

He was earlier the head of the department of Journalism, Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. He also served on the governing council of National Literacy Mission, Andhra Pradesh, India. He served on the Legislative Committee on Environment, Forest and Wild Life. He also served on the Legislative Committees on Sub-ordinate Legislation, Ethics, Science & Technology, Disaster Management, Revenue, Home, etc.. He was on the Governing Council of Andhra Pradesh Press Academy. As a student, he won the Junior Research Fellowship in Journalism at the national level. He won the UGC Career award in Journalism in 1994.