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BACHI KARKARIA
Journalist
The highly acclaimed journalist and
writer Bachi Karkaria, with her
unique sense of humour and insight into
life, is an incisive chronicler of our times. game-changer.
She has played a key role in sharpening
the urban-centric focus in the Indian
print media and brought to the reader a
delightful style in which a play on words
has made it so uniquely her own.
Bachi Karkaria, one of India’s veteran
journalists, is Editorial Consultant with
The Times of India and a Media Trainer.
Her wit and wisdom are legendary.
Her prose style is inimitable. She has
an uncanny ability to hold a mirror to
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society and make her readers laugh and
introspect at the same time. Her in-depth
and analytical writing has made her a true
She has been credited with reinvigorating
journalism by creating reader-friendly
ways to present complex infrastructure
problems, expanding the idea of city
coverage to include health, leisure, retail, Morgan-Hewitt Award for Lifetime
where it intersects with citizens’ issues,
and most importantly, focusing on what
she terms ‘infrastructure’ – the importance
of the social dividend, by always keeping
people at the centre of the urban agenda.
Her books include, ‘Dare to Dream’ on
hotelier MS Oberoi; Mumbai Masti, an
illustrated book capturing the city’s quirky
soul; and ‘Behind the Times’, stories from
the trenches and war rooms of the Times
Group. She was the first Indian on the
board of the World Editors Forum.
She is a recipient of the US-based Mary
Achievement, and a Jefferson Fellow of
the East West Centre, Honolulu.