Bachi Karkaria

Bachi Karkaria is an Indian journalist and columnist. She has served as an editor at The Times of India and has also helped create new brands for the Bennett Coleman & Co Ltd media group. She is best known for her satirical column called Erratica in the newspaper[1] and as the author of the best selling title Dare To Dream: A Life of M.S. Oberoi.[2]

She also writes a relationships advice column called Giving Gyan for Mumbai Mirror,[3] a city tabloid for the Times of India group. She is a regular panellist on television news programs.[4][5]

Karkaria was the first Indian on the board of the World Editors Forum, is a recipient of the US-based Mary Morgan-Hewitt Award for Lifetime Achievement, and a Jefferson Fellow of the East West Centre, Honolulu. She is on the advisory boards of the National AIDS Control Organisation and the India AIDS Initiative of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.[6]

  1. ^ [1], The Times of India website. Retrieved 2 August 2010.
  2. ^ Best selling business books of the decade
  3. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 18 November 2009. Retrieved 13 July 2010.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link), Mumbai Mirror website. Retrieved 2 August 2010.
  4. ^ "The Newshour Debate: Guilty of rape and murder - Part 2 - video dailymotion". Dailymotion. 11 September 2013. Retrieved 25 May 2019.
  5. ^ St Pauls Institute of Communication Education (4 March 2014), Bachi Karkaria teaches 'reporting your city' at St Pauls Institute of Communication Education., archived from the original on 15 December 2021, retrieved 25 May 2019
  6. ^ [2], Milken Institute website. Retrieved 2 August 2010.