Anuranjan Jha is an Indian journalist and author. He is a well-known persona in Indian media. For the past 25 years, while Mr Jha was praised for his frank, unbiased opinions and constructive experimentation in journalism, he was also instrumental in exposing social corruption at various levels. Some of his stings and investigative stories are rare examples in Media Industry. He was the founder and CEO of "Media Sarkar", an

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website that conducted controversial sting operation on

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in 2013. Prior to that, Jha had launched India's first matrimonial television channel, Shagun TV. His career in journalism spans 25 years. Before launching Shagun TV, Jha has worked with

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, BAG Films, India News and

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, and was chief operating officer (COO) of CNEB, a news channel. He has published three books as an author- Ramlila Maidan, Gandhi Maidan and Jhoom. Currently living in

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and contributing as columnist in various national and international media houses including

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Early life and education

Jha hails from a small village called Phulwaria in

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. His grandfather's elder brother

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was a freedom fighter and noted author. Jha graduated in history from

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and received a post-graduate diploma in Journalism from the

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. Later, he also took a post-graduate degree in history from Sabarmati University and Masters in Journalism from GJU.

Career

Jha started his

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career with Print Media and worked with

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and

as a

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. At the age of 30, Anuranjan Jha became an Editor and News Director of the Hindi news channel India News. He thereafter worked with companies like

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, BAG Films,

, India News,

. He subsequently became managing director of Vertent Media Soft Pvt. Ltd., a media company, where he helped launch a full-fledged 24-hour lifestyle/entertainment TV channel called Shagun TV, India's first matrimonial channel. Anuranjan Jha founded Park Media Pvt Ltd. in 2009 and started a News and Investigative Web Portal mediasarkar.com in 2010. He is currently founder and CEO of Media Sarkar. He has been writing features, articles, columns on different social and political issues in many national newspapers, magazines and journals. In May 2013 International Magazine Arcade published him on the cover page. Currently, Jha is writing for

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and

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from

Controversy

Jha came into prominence when Media Sarkar, of which he was the founder and CEO, came out with video tapes to suggest that

(AAP) party members are corrupt. On 21 November 2013, Jha revealed a footage from a sting operation in which he claimed that several AAP leaders were caught accepting money from individuals illegally. The AAP demanded the raw footage, which Jha refused to provide and invited several agencies and election commission of India to investigate the sting.

Literary works

Anuranjan Jha's first book "Ramleela-Maidan" was published by Antika Prakashan in 2017. "Ramleela-Maidan" is about Anna movement and the rise and fall of Aam Aadmi Party and Arvind Kejriwal. His Second book "Gandhi-Maidan" unfolds the bluff of social justice in Bihar's politics for the race to power. And recently, he penned "Jhoom", in which he accounted harsh reality of liquor prohibition in Bihar. In 2022, the English edition of his first book, "Ramleela-Maidan" got published.

Undercover Investigative Journalism

Anuranjan Jha is also known for conducting and executing many thrilling, shocking and secret sting operations in India that have been carried out by different agencies, media houses and organisations over the years that created sensation in the nation and put his life in dangerous situations many times. Jha has allegedly exposed many faces, right from cricketers to politicians and even the Aam Aadmi Party and their politicians and rocked the entire country with the help of a few trusty colleagues and a couple of spy cams.

Bhor Trust

In 2016, Jha established a charitable trust called Bhor trust, to carry out work in the fields of

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in rural

. The trust also gives achiever awards and conducts literary festivals.

Achievements

*मेरी दिल्ली अवार्ड (Meri Dilli Award) 2011

References

External links

Media Sarkar Official Website

BBC News, Delhi : Story : 31 Oct 2013

International Business Times, India Edition : Video Interview : 22 Nov 2013
* ttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCw89o-yS8o/ Anuranjan Jha on Times Now, The Newshour Debate
Anuranjan Jha on ABP News

Anuranjan Jha from Newsroom on CNEB

Young Talk, CNEB

Anuranjan Jha talks with Manoj Tiwari
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