Pankaj Pachauri is a senior Indian television journalist. He was born on 24 September 1963 in Mathura, Uttar Pradesh. Pankaj Pachauri, who started his journalistic career with ‘The Patriot’ newspaper at the age of twenty-one, is today a well-known and reputed name in the mass media. Active in journalism and electronic media for the last twenty-five years, he has provided his special services to many national and international newspapers and institutions, such as ‘NDTV’, ‘The Sunday Observer’, ‘India Today’, ‘BBC’ and ‘American Public Broadcasting Service’.
Biography and Education
His father’s name is ‘Bhagwan Sahay Pachauri’. He is a commerce graduate from ‘St. John’s College’, Agra and has received his journalism education from ‘Lal Bahadur Shastri Institute of Communication’ Lucknow. NDTV’s senior editor Pankaj Pachauri has been honoured with Gaurav Shri Samman by ‘Agra University’.
Through programmes like ‘Hum Log’ on ‘NDTV India’, he has raised burning issues of the common man as well as the elite. Along with this, he is also making a meaningful effort to show our economic activities in a wider perspective including politics and society through the programme ‘Money Mantra’ on ‘NDTV Profit’.
He has made a significant contribution in making Hindi an easy and well-organized language of mass communication. For this, along with the meaningful use of the media platform, he has also made full use of other important platforms for intellectual discourse. Senior television journalist Pankaj Pachauri has also worked as media advisor to former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
award
In 1989, he received many awards including ‘The Status Man Award for Rural Reporting’ for exposing ‘female foeticide in Rajasthan’. In 1990, he was awarded the ‘Srikant Verma Award’ for journalism. Pankaj Pachauri, who set new standards in the field of Hindi journalism, was awarded the ‘Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Award’ by the ‘Kendriya Hindi Sansthan’.
