Uday Mahurkar

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Uday Mahurkar
Born
Uday Mahurkar

(1962-09-28) September 28, 1962 (age 62)
NationalityIndian
Education Maharaja Sayajirao University
OccupationWriter
Years active1983 – present

Uday Mahurkar (born 28 September 1962) is an Indian journalist, political analyst and author. He was a deputy editor at the India Today group. [1] In October 2020, he was appointed as the Information Commissioner by the Government of India and served there till 6 November 2023. [2]

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Early life

Mahurkar was born in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. His family moved to Gujarat after independence. He was educated in Baroda, a former Maratha Princely state. He graduated in Indian history and culture and archaeology from Maharaja Sayajirao University in 1983 and joined The Indian Express in the same year as a sub-editor at Ahmedabad.[ citation needed ]

In 2017, Mahurkar wrote the book Marching with a Billion about the model of Narendra Modi's governance as prime minister. [3] The book's foreword was written by the economist Professor Klaus Schwab, the founder and architect of the World Economic Forum.

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    - Uday Mahurkar (2014). Centrestage : inside the Narendra Modi model of governance. Gurgaon: Random House. ISBN   9788184005141. OCLC   881605199.