Sessions
Nationalism, Populism and the Threat to the Global Liberal Order
R. Jagannathan, Kanhaiya Kumar, Makarand R. Paranjape, Manu Joseph, Sagarika Ghose, Suketu Mehta with Harish Bijoor
Bio
Journalist with 40 years’ experience in business and general news journalism. Experiences range from managing and editing print dailies to magazines to online news and views publishing.
Career details, starting from present
Editorial Director, Swarajya magazine, since December 2015. Swarajya was a publication started by Rajaji, and has now been revived by a group of investors to develop a right-of- centre market-oriented viewpoint with Indic culture as mooring
Prior to Dec 2015 Editor-in-Chief, Forbes India since 2013
Other concurrent positions held from January 2011 to October 2015:
Editor, Firstpost.com, an online general news and views portal of Network 18 Group, since January 2011
Senior positions held in last 20 years
Executive Editor and Business Editor of DNA newspaper (2005-10)
Executive Editor, Business Standard (2002-05) Editor, Indian Management Journal of AIMA, 2002-05
Editor, Myiris.com, a stockmarket portal, 2000-02
Editor, Financial Express (1996-2000)
Resident Editor, Mumbai, Business Standard, 1993-1996
Executive Editor, Business Today magazine (1991-93)
Business Editor, India Today, 1990- 91
Editor, BusinessWorld magazine, Mumbai (1987-90)
Academics: Economics graduate from St Xavier’s College, Mumbai