Devil's Advocate: The Untold Story

While Jayalalithaa laughed it off later, the after-effects of Modi’s infamous walkout have grown worse with time. Riveting and fast-paced, Devil’s Advocate is as no-holds-barred as any of Karan Thapar’s interviews.

About the Author Karan Thapar worked for ten years in television in the UK, where he trained as a correspondent, producer, editor and presenter with London Weekend Television and worked on programmes as varied as Weekend World, The World This Week, The Business Programme, The Walden Interview and Eastern Eye. Prior to that, he worked as a foreign correspondent with The Times, London. After his return to India in 1991, he presented well-known programmes such as Eyewitness (Doordarshan), HARDtalk India (BBC), Devil’s Advocate (CNN-IBN) and To The Point (India Today). He helped establish and headed HT Vision Ltd as executive producer, was director of programmes at Home TV and president, news and current affairs, at UTV. Presently, he is the President of Infotainment Television (ITV) and writes a weekly column, ‘Sunday Sentiments’, for the Hindustan Times and a fortnightly column, ‘As I See It’, for Business Standard. In 2006 a collection of his columns in the Hindustan Times was published in a book called Sunday Sentiments (Wisdom Tree) and a compilation of his interviews for the BBC was published by Penguin Books India as a book called Face to Face India. In 2009 a second collection of his columns, More Salt than Pepper, was published by HarperCollins India. A third, called As I Like It, was published in 2018 (Wisdom Tree). Karan Thapar has won several awards such as the Asian Television Award for Best Current Affairs Presenter (five-time winner), the Ramnath Goenka Broadcast Journalist of the Year Award (2009), the Indian News Broadcasting Award for the Best Current Affairs Presenter (2009 and 2010), the International Press Institute – India Award for Excellence in Journalism (2013) and the G. K. Reddy Award (2018).

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