Hartosh Singh Bal

Hartosh Singh Bal is currently the political editor of The Caravan magazine.[1][2][3] Bal was the political editor of OPEN magazine when OPEN first brought to public attention the existence of the Radia tapes.[4]

Hartosh Singh Bal
Hartosh Singh Bal at the Press Club of India in New Delhi
NationalityIndian
OccupationMagzine editor

Books

Bal has co-written a novel called A Certain Ambiguity which won the 2007 Association of American Publishers award for the best professional/scholarly book in mathematics. Bal went on to write another book--"Waters close over us"—which is partly a travelogue featuring Bal's travels on the Narmada river, and partly a sociological, political, artistic, historical, and anthropological commentary on the culture of this region.[5][6][7][8]

Fired from OPEN magazine

In November 2013, Bal was controversially fired from his position of political editor of OPEN magazine.[9] In an interview, OPEN's former Editor Manu Joseph revealed that the magazine's proprietor, Sanjiv Goenka, had told Joseph that Bal's views, expressed in his writings and in television appearances, were resulting in him "making a lot of... political enemies."[10]

gollark: How did you detect this?
gollark: Appeared where?
gollark: Cool!
gollark: Computers end up making it seem like I exist, but I don't, due to random errors?
gollark: GPT-3 *exists*.

References
  1. "Bal home page in Caravan".
  2. newslaundry (12 August 2017). "#MediaRumble: Role of journalism in speaking truth to power". Retrieved 15 March 2018 – via YouTube.
  3. Bal, Hartosh Singh. "Suggestion on 35 A. Let's remove it but ensure twitter brahmin hawks are first to go settle. & let's not waste state security on them". twitter.com. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  4. "Bal on Niira Radia". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  5. "HarperCollinsPublishers India - Hartosh Singh Bal". harpercollins.co.in. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  6. "Waters close over us review by Avtar Singh". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
  7. "Along a river". The Hindu. 26 May 2014. Retrieved 30 October 2016.
  8. "Down the river". Mint. 14 December 2013. Retrieved 24 November 2016.
  9. "New York Times conversation with Bal". Retrieved 11 June 2015.
  10. "Bal fired from Open magazine". Retrieved 9 June 2015.
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