Prabhu Chawla is the Editor-in-chief of the Chennai

Chennai

Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

-based The New Indian Express

The New Indian Express

The New Indian Express is an Indian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper published by the Express Publications. It was founded in 1932 as the Indian Express, under the ownership of Chennai-based P. Varadarajulu Naidu. In 1991, following the death of the then owner Ramnath Goenka, the Goenka...

 newspaper in India. Before, he was the editor of Language publications in India Today

India Today

India Today is an Indian weekly news magazine published by Living Media India Limited, in publication since 1975 based in Mumbai. India Today is also the name of its sister-publication in Hindi...

, India's leading weekly newsmagazine India Today

India Today

India Today is an Indian weekly news magazine published by Living Media India Limited, in publication since 1975 based in Mumbai. India Today is also the name of its sister-publication in Hindi...

 Group. Before holding this post he worked as the Editorial Director of the magazine for 14 years. Here Chawla was succeeded by M. J. Akbar

M. J. Akbar

Mobashar Jawed "M.J." Akbar is a leading Indian journalist and author. He has recently taken charge as Editorial Director of India Today, India's leading weekly English news magazine published by the Living Media group...

 in the end of August 2010.

Born in 1946 at Dera Ghazi Khan

Dera Ghazi Khan

Dera Ghazi Khan is a city located in Dera Ghazi Khan District, Punjab, Pakistan. Dera Ghazi Khan is one of the most populous cities in Southern Punjab, and it is the largest district in Punjab in terms of area, being approximately in extent....

, British India, now Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

, he is one of India's better-known political journalists, known for his sharp political analysis and investigative reports. Today he is an authoritative voice in print.
During his days with India Today group, he hosted a famous talk show on Aaj Tak

Aaj Tak

Aaj Tak is a 24-hour Hindi news television channel owned by TV Today Network Ltd. Aaj Tak loosely translates as "Till Today" or "Up to the Minute". Watched by some 45 million viewers in India’s cable and satellite universe, Aaj Tak is one of India’s largest privately owned news channels...

 called Seedhi Baat where he interviewed prominent personalities. But after leaving the group he was replaced by M J Akbar.
Now Prabhu Chawla hosts a new talk show on ETV called Sachchi Baat

Chawla was controversially awarded the Padma Bhushan

Padma Bhushan

The Padma Bhushan is the third highest civilian award in the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna and the Padma Vibhushan, but comes before the Padma Shri. It is awarded by the Government of India.-History:...

 by the Indian government in 2003. A refugee from Pakistan, he arrived in Delhi in 1948. His graduation was completed at the Deshbandhu College in Kalkaji. Then he post graduated from Delhi School Of Economics. He began as a lecturer in Delhi University, then, after 11 years of teaching, he joined India Today, left for The Indian Express

The Indian Express

The Indian Express is an Indian English-language daily newspaper. It is published in Mumbai by Indian Express Group. After Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split in 1999 among his family members into two with the southern editions taking the name The New Indian Express, while the old...

 and then rejoined India Today first as editor of the Hindi edition and then the English one. He is married and has two sons, Ankur, an advocate, who was recently chargesheeted by the CBI

CBI

- Places and installations :* Cape Breton Island, part of Nova Scotia, Canada* Center for Biomedical Imaging, a research facility of Boston University Medical Center* Central Bukidnon Institute, a secondary school in the Philippines...

, and Anubhav, a video photographer.

Controversy

Prabhu Chawla's name has been mentioned in the Radia tapes controversy

Radia tapes controversy

The Radia tapes controversy relates to the telephonic conversations between Nira Radia, a political lobbyist and an acquaintance of the Indian telecom minister A. Raja, and with senior journalists, politicians, and corporate houses, taped by the Indian Income Tax Department in 2008-09. The tapes...

 where he was recorded wanting to inform Mukesh Ambani

Mukesh Ambani

Mukesh Dhirubhai Ambani is an Indian business magnate. He is the chairman and managing director of Indian conglomerate Reliance Industries, the largest private sector enterprise in India listed in Fortune 500 magazine. His personal stake in Reliance Industries is 48%...

about high court decision. He reportedly told Radia that any thing in India can be fixed. Soon after the controversy, he was asked to leave India Today and stopped anchoring his pet show "Seedhi Baat".