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Hartosh Singh Bal | |
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 Hartosh Singh Bal at the Press Club of India in New Delhi | |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Alma mater | BITS Pilani & NYU |
| Occupation | Journalist |
Hartosh Singh Bal is currently the political editor of The Caravan magazine [1] [2] [3] He is also an adjunct faculty member at Jindal School of Journalism & Communication at the O. P. Jindal Global University. [4] [5] He had been the political editor of OPEN magazine. [6]
Bal pursued his undergraduate education in Mechanical Engineering from BITS Pilani. [7] He then went on to pursue an MS in mathematics from New York University, USA. [8] [9]
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In November 2013, Bal was controversially fired from his position of political editor of OPEN magazine. [10] 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." [11]
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. His second book--"Waters close over us"—is part-travelogue and partly a sociological, political, artistic, historical, and anthropological commentary. [12] [13] [14] [15]
Caravan Magazine Wins 2023 Shorenstein Journalism Award on October 11, 2023. Caravan Editor, Hartosh Singh Bal, "delivered a keynote address at the Stanford Alumni Centre in California on October 10. The award committee had also specifically spoken of Bal’s achievements, saying, “The award also recognizes the contributions of The Caravan’s executive editor, Hartosh Singh Bal, who formerly worked as the magazine’s political editor for ten years. An incisive commentator on Indian politics and society, Bal was the political editor of Open magazine and has worked with The Indian Express, Tehelka and Mail Today. He is the author of Waters Close Over Us, A Journey Along the Narmada and co-author of A Certain Ambiguity, A Mathematical Novel. He is trained as an engineer and a mathematician.”
He was invited to participate in the Harjit Kaur Sidhu Memorial Program at the University of British Columbia, where he was invited to speak on the Farmer's Movement in India. [16] However the UBC Sikh Students’ Association objected to his inclusion because he is a nephew of the KPS Gill and has spoken in support of Gill's role in the suppression of the Punjab disorder. [17]
Ujjal Dosanjh, in a letter to UBC president said that he's recycled his UBC degree to protest what he perceived as an attack on academic freedom. [18]
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