Harish Khare
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Harish Khare is Media Advisor at the Indian Prime Minister's
Office. He has worked as Resident Editor and chief of bureau with The Hindu in New Delhi, India. The Hindu
, is widely considered India
's left leaning and most respected broadsheet. Harish Khare has also worked as editor of the Ahmedabad edition of The Times of India
and as a senior editor for Hindustan Times
.He has a Ph.D in Political Science from Yale University with a thesis on "Perception in Decision making".
He was appointed to the present post on the 19 June 2009 after the UPA government's second consecutive victory at the Centre. He was preceded by Deepak Sandhu, a career bureaucrat and Dr Sanjay Baru, presently Editor at the Business Standard, New Delhi.
Family
Mr Khare is married to Renana Jhabvala, Chairperson of SEWA Bank and a senior member of SEWA and novelist Ruth Prabwer Jhabvala's daughter.
Mr. Khare has a son, Uday Khare, who is working with Amarchand Mangaldas, a leading Indian law firm, in Mumbai.
Prime Minister of India
The Prime Minister of India , as addressed to in the Constitution of India — Prime Minister for the Union, is the chief of government, head of the Council of Ministers and the leader of the majority party in parliament...
Office. He has worked as Resident Editor and chief of bureau with The Hindu in New Delhi, India. The Hindu
The Hindu
The Hindu is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded and continuously published in Chennai since 1878. According to the Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has a circulation of 1.46 million copies as of December 2009. The enterprise employed over 1,600 workers and gross income reached $40...
, is widely considered India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
's left leaning and most respected broadsheet. Harish Khare has also worked as editor of the Ahmedabad edition of The Times of India
The Times of India
The Times of India is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. TOI has the largest circulation among all English-language newspaper in the world, across all formats . It is owned and managed by Bennett, Coleman & Co. Ltd...
and as a senior editor for Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper founded in 1924 with roots in the Indian independence movement of the period ....
.He has a Ph.D in Political Science from Yale University with a thesis on "Perception in Decision making".
He was appointed to the present post on the 19 June 2009 after the UPA government's second consecutive victory at the Centre. He was preceded by Deepak Sandhu, a career bureaucrat and Dr Sanjay Baru, presently Editor at the Business Standard, New Delhi.
Family
Mr Khare is married to Renana Jhabvala, Chairperson of SEWA Bank and a senior member of SEWA and novelist Ruth Prabwer Jhabvala's daughter.
Mr. Khare has a son, Uday Khare, who is working with Amarchand Mangaldas, a leading Indian law firm, in Mumbai.
External links
- TwoCircles.net interviews Harish Khare
- http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/PoliticsNation/Harish-Khare-to-be-new-media-adviser-to-Prime-Minister/articleshow/4679928.cms
- Indian Prime Minister's Officers' List