Kingshuk Nag is an Indian author and editor with ''

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'' and a recipient of the Prem Bhatia Award for Outstanding Political Reporting of The Year.

Life and career

Nag studied in

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, culminating in MA in Economics from the

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in 1980. Nag worked as a deputy editor for '' Business India'', as an editor and PR officer for the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India, as the New Delhi reporter for the ''

Indian Express ''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932. It is published in Mumbai by the Indian Express Group. In 1999, eight years after the group's founder Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split be ...

'' and as a staff writer and economist for Tata Economic Consultancy Services. Since 1993, he has worked for ''The Times of India''. He was its business news chief, working in Delhi and

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, in which role he brought business news to the front page in the wake of economic liberalisation. Since 2000, he has been the Resident Editor, first in Ahmedabad and then, since 2005, in

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. In his Ahmedabad post, Nag was witness to the Bhuj earthquake, the installation of

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as the Chief Minister and the

2002 Gujarat riots The 2002 Gujarat riots, also known as the 2002 Gujarat violence, was a three-day period of inter-communal violence in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The burning of a train in Godhra on 27 February 2002, which caused the deaths of 58 Hin ...

. He received the Prem Bhatia Award for Outstanding Political Reporting of The Year in 2002 for his "courageous reporting of Gujarat riots" along with reporter Bharat Desai. By his own account, he was threatened by the

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chief

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that he would be socially boycotted if he did not "mend his ways". Since 2005, as the Resident Editor in Hyderabad, Nag has covered events such as

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and the agitation for statehood for Telangana.

Works

* ''The Double Life of Ramalinga Raju : The Story of India's Biggest Corporate Fraud'' (2012), ASIN B008V8HGXW *''Kingfizzer: The Rise and Fall of Vijay Mallya'' * ''Battlegrond Telangana'' (2012), * ''The NaMo Story'' is a biography of

, which had been in conception since 2002 according to Nag, but no publishers were available to publish an unbiased biography of Modi until 2012. Excerpts from the book have appeared in ''

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'' and ''

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''. * ''The Saffron Tide'' (2014), * ''Netaji: Living Dangerously'' (2016) * ''Atal Bihari Vajpayee : A Man For All Seasons'' (2017) * ''Mohan Bhagwat: Influencer-in-Chief'' (2018) * ''A New Silk Road: India, China and the Geopolitics of Asia'' (2021)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nag, Kingshuk Living people The Times of India journalists 2002 Gujarat riots Indian political journalists 21st-century Indian journalists 21st-century biographers Indian investigative journalists Delhi School of Economics alumni Indian political writers Indian male novelists Indian male journalists Year of birth missing (living people)