User:Am.par123/Deepak Parvatiyar

Deepak Parvatiyar is a distinguished Indian journalist. His articles on various social and political issues have been published in prominent Indian publications such as [The Times of India], Free Press Journal, Onlooker, The Illustrated Weekly of India, Newstime, [Eenadu] (Telugu), [Sahara Time] etc. His coverage of catastrophes such as the Bombay riots of 1993, the Bombay Blasts of 1993, the Surat Plague of 1994, the Gujarat Earthquake of 2001, and the Maoist seizure of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal in 2005 are well chronicled from time to time in various media. His views are often sought by international media and his reports are often cited by prestigious organsiations such as the Planning Commission of India, the National Commission for Women, Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Sri Lanka, The US Department of Commerce etc.[1] [2]- India[3][4][5] Deepak has spent almost twenty years in journalism and has held prestigious position in the media industry. He was entrusted with the responsibility of being the Acting Chief Reporter of Bombay's one of the oldest newspapers, Free Press Journal, when he was just 24 years of age. In 1994, he set up the Gujarat bureau of Andhra Pradesh's largest circulated daily, Eenadu. A year later, he was entrusted with the task of looking after the ETV news bureau in Gujarat when the television channel was launched by the Eenadu group in 1995. ETV thus became the first private television channel to have its operations from Gujarat. In September 2001, Deepak shifted his base of New Delhi and was Eenadu's political correspondent covering the National Democratic Alliance (NDA)government and its biggest coalition partner, the Bharatiya Janata Party. When India's first broadsheet news weekly Sahara Time was launched in 2003, Deepak was invited to head its national bureau and was also an assistant editor there. At that time, Sahara Time was lauded as the most promising launch of the year by the National Readership Survey. Deepak also worked as the Content Editor with Institute for Customer Relationships Management (ICRM)in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2007-08. His contribution of a chapter on former Indian Prime Minister Vishwanath Pratap Singh in the first ever coffee table book on Indian Prime Ministers - Prime Ministers of India: Bharat Bhagya Vidhata - which has chapters from eminent writers including noble laureate VS Naipaul, KG Suresh is highly commended in the Indian political firmament.[6] His services have been recognised by various institutions in India and is a guest faculty in Jagannath Institute of Management Sciences. --Am.par123 (talk) 12:52, 22 December 2009 (UTC)