Nalin Mehta | |
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Academic background | |
Education | University of East Anglia (MA) La Trobe University (PhD) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | Social science Journalism Media studies History |
Sub-discipline | South Asian history |
Institutions | Shiv Nadar University Indian Institute of Management Bangalore |
Professor Nalin Mehta is an Indian political scientist,journalist,and writer. His latest book,The New BJP:Modi and the Making of the World's Largest Political Party,has been hailed as a "seminal",non-partisan revisionist account of the rise of the BJP in India. [1]
Some of the world's leading scholars on India have called it a "classic", [2] praising it as an "indispensable" and "masterful account" of the rise of the BJP. Its findings ignited a major global debate on Indian politics and caste [3]
Mehta is currently Dean,School of Modern Media,UPES [upes];Advisor,Global University Systems and Non-Resident Senior Fellow,Institute of South Asian Studies,National University of Singapore . He has previously been executive editor of The Times of India Online, [4] consulting editor of The Times of India ; [5] [6] and managing editor, India Today (English TV news channel). He has also been associate professor at Shiv Nadar University; [7] founding editor of the international journal South Asian History and Culture. [8] and founding co-director of the Times LitFest Delhi [9] He was an adjunct professor at the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and held senior positions with the Global Fund and UNAIDS. [10]
Mehta studied at the Scindia School,where he finished as school captain and editor of the Scindia School Review. [11] A Commonwealth-DFID scholar,he earned a Master of Arts in international relations from the University of East Anglia and a PhD in political science from La Trobe University in Melbourne. [12]
Star TV CEO Uday Shankar has called Mehta "probably the best media academic in India" [13] and the media guru Robin Jeffrey has described his work as "remarkable for being both a distinguished academic and an experienced journalist". [14] Mehta's latest book Behind a Billion Screens:What Television Tells Us About Modern India,long-listed for Business Book of the Year by Tata Literary Live 2015 [15] and was a national non-fiction bestseller. [16] [17]
Mehta's first book India on Television,widely acclaimed as a seminal,"impeccably researched" [18] and "authoritative scholarly study" of the politics and business of television in India, [19] was awarded the Asian Publishing Convention Award for Best Book in 2009. [20]
His social history of Indian sport,Olympics:The India Story co-authored with historian Boria Majumdar,was welcomed as a "pioneering,long-awaited" [21] work of history in the press and as a "triumph of Olympian proportions". [22] India's most well-known sociologist Ashis Nandy called it " the first comprehensive,scholarly and yet lively account of India's experiences with the Olympics". [23]
Mehta and Majumdar joined again to write Sellotape Legacy,a detailed account of the politics,economics,and disaster of the Delhi Commonwealth Games in 2010. Former Indian sports minister Mani Shankar Aiyar called it a "blazing expose" and a "thorough,well-researched,sober,and absorbingly well-written indictment of Everything You Wanted to Know about CWG [Commonwealth Games] but were Afraid to Ask." [24]
Mehta's other major work includes Gujarat Beyond Gandhi,a jointly edited anthology of critical essays that looked at 60 years of politics and social change in Gujarat. [25]
Mehta has been Managing Editor of India Today's English news channel (2013–14), [26] Deputy News Editor and prime-time anchor with Times Now. [27] and a political correspondent and anchor with NDTV. [28] For NDTV,he covered the 2002 Gujarat violence [29] and subsequent state assembly elections, [30] the 2001 Gujarat earthquake,the assassination of the royal family in Kathmandu and several Indian state elections including Chhattisgarh and Punjab. [31]
Alongside leadership positions in the media industry and international development agencies,Mehta has held several visiting appointments at universities and institutions in Australia,Switzerland,Singapore,and India. These include National University of Singapore,Australian National University,Canberra,La Trobe University,Melbourne,and the International Olympic Museum in Lausanne,Switzerland. [32]
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