Karan Thapar

Karan Thapar is an Indian journalist and a television commentator and interviewer. He was associated with CNN-IBN and hosted The Devil's Advocate and The Last Word. He is currently associated with Headlines Today and hosts the shows To the Point and Nothing But The Truth.

Early life and Education

Karan Thapar is the youngest child of former Chief of the Army Staff General Pran Nath Thapar and Bimla Thapar. Historian Romila Thapar is his cousin.

He is an alumnus of The Doon School and the Stowe School. While at Doon, Thapar was the Editor-in-chief of The Doon School Weekly. He graduated with a degree in Economics and Political Philosophy from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1977. In the same year, he was also President of the Cambridge Union. He subsequently obtained a doctorate in International Relations from St Antony's College, Oxford.

Career

He began his career in journalism with The Times in Lagos, Nigeria and later worked as their Lead Writer on the Indian subcontinent till 1981. In 1982 he joined London Weekend Television where he worked for the next 11 years. He then moved to India where he worked with The Hindustan Times Television Group, Home TV and United Television before setting up his own production house in August 2001, Infotainment Television, which makes programmes for amongst others BBC, Doordarshan and Channel News Asia.

Karan

Karan is a small town and urban commune in the Koulikoro Region of southwestern Mali. In the 2009 census the commune had a population of 6,874.

References

Çıkaran

Çıkaran is a Moor-class mooring and salvage tug. Bow, McLachlan and Company of Paisley in Renfrewshire, Scotland built her for the Royal Navy, who commissioned her as HMDYC Moorstone in 1919. In 1948, she was decommissioned and, in 1951 she was sold to civilian owners in Turkey, who renamed her Kurtaran. In 1962, she was sold again and her new owners named her Çıkaran. She was still in service in 2003.

References

Karan (1994 film)

Karan is a 1994 Bollywood film starring Vindu Dara Singh and Trishna. It is an action film.

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External links

Karan at the Internet Movie Database