Years active 1985 – present Name Karan Thapar | ||
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Occupation News Anchor of CNN-IBN & CNBC-TV18, Headlines Today (since April 2014) Notable credit(s) Devil's AdvocateIndia TonightThe Last WordFace to Face (BBC)Hardtalk India (BBC)To the Point Spouse Nisha Thapar (m. 1982–1991) Education University of Oxford, University of Cambridge Parents Bimla Thapar, Pran Nath Thapar Books More Salt Than Pepper: Dropping Anchor with Karan Thapar TV shows Court Martial, FaceTo Face Similar People Pran Nath Thapar, Rajdeep Sardesai, Sagarika Ghose, Arnab Goswami, Barkha Dutt | ||
AR Rahman, Not Modi, Was Karan Thapar's Most Difficult Interview
Karan Thapar is an Indian journalist and a television commentator and interviewer. He was associated with CNN-IBN and hosted The Devil's Advocate and The Last Word. He is currently associated with India Today and hosts the shows To the Point and Nothing But The Truth.
Contents
- AR Rahman Not Modi WasKaran Thapars Most Difficult Interview
- Nothing but the truth with karan thapar sanjaya baru on accidental prime minister
- Early life and education
- Career
- Awards and accolades
- Books
- References
Nothing but the truth with karan thapar sanjaya baru on accidental prime minister
Early life and education
Karan Thapar is the youngest child of former Chief of the Army Staff General Pran Nath Thapar and Bimla Thapar. Historian Romila Thapar is his cousin.
He is an alumnus of The Doon School and the Stowe School. While at Doon, Thapar was the Editor-in-chief of The Doon School Weekly. He graduated with a degree in Economics and Political Philosophy from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1977. In the same year, he was also President of the Cambridge Union. He subsequently obtained a doctorate in International Relations from St Antony's College, Oxford.
Career
He began his career in journalism with The Times in Lagos, Nigeria and later worked as their Lead Writer on the Indian subcontinent till 1981. In 1982 he joined London Weekend Television where he worked for the next 11 years. He then moved to India where he worked with The Hindustan Times Television Group, Home TV and United Television before setting up his own production house in August 2001, Infotainment Television, which makes programmes for amongst others BBC, Doordarshan and Channel News Asia.
Currently the President of Infotainment Television, Thapar is noted for his aggressive interviews with leading politicians and celebrities.
A few of his shows which have been much watched are Eyewitness, Tonight at 10, In Focus with Karan, Line of Fire and War of Words. The shows with which he has been making headlines lately are, Devil's Advocate and The Last Word on CNN-IBN and India Tonight on CNBC TV 18.
In April 2014, Thapar quit CNN-IBN to join India Today. He hosts the new show of the Channel titled To the Point whose pilot episode ran on April 1, 2014.
He also writes for The Indian Express a leading Indian daily as a columnist. On 21 April 2017 he had written an article named "The mysterious of Mr Jadhav" in regard to death sentence given to Mr Kulbhushan Yadav an alleged pakistan spy. This article caused great hue and cry in Indian including article's comment section asking why Mr Thapar is showing such an anti-national stand against his own country fellow persons on sensitive issues which can embarrass its own country in International level.