Paranjoy Guha Thakurta is EPW's new editor

January 25, 2016 18:16

On 23 January 2016, the Sameeksha Trust -- a charitable trust that publishes the Bombay journal the Economic and Political Weekly -- appointed a new editor for EPW: the senior business journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta. This announcement was made barely a week after C Rammanohar Reddy, who has edited the weekly since 2004, resigned from his post. This decision was reportedly prompted by his disagreements with the members of the trust. Reddy will be handing over his editorial responsibilities to Guha Thakurta on 1 April. Yesterday, Atul Dev, a web reporter with The Caravan, spoke to Guha Thakurta about this development, the recent controversy and his plans for the future of the country's most venerated scholarly journal. Read

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