Wednesday
10
September 2025
5 PM IST
Location
Room 019, School of Engineering and Applied Science
Central Campus
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मीडिया में नैतिकता और स्वाध्याय
The Nalanda
Om Thanvi
Journalist and Writer
Speaker
Charu Singh
Assistant Professor
School of Arts and Sciences
Moderator
Speaker
Om Thanvi
Om Thanvi is a journalist with over 48 years of experience in the Indian media, known for his significant contributions as an editor, writer, academic, and public intellectual. After completing his Master's in Commerce, he started mainstream journalism in 1978 by writing in a weekly paper Itwari in Rajasthan. He then joined the Hindi daily Jansatta of the Indian Express Group, being associated with this newspaper for the next twenty-six years, initially as Resident Editor in Chandigarh and later as Executive Editor in New Delhi. Following this, he was elected as the Consulting Editor at Rajasthan Patrika and a Visiting Professor at Jawaharlal Nehru University. Later, he served as the Founding Vice-Chancellor of Harideo Joshi University of Journalism and Mass Communication. He has participated in major international platforms, including the UN Earth Summit, several UN Climate Conferences across continents, the World Social Forum, and South Asian media summits. A respected voice in the field, he has served as Secretary-General of the Editors Guild of India, Vice-President of SAFMA, and member of India's National Integration Council, headed by the Prime Minister. His books include Muanjodaro, Apne Apne Agyeya, Kiya Ankiya, and Anantar. Recipient of several honours, including the Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Award conferred by the President of India, the Saarc Literature Award, and the Unity Award conferred recently in Delhi, he remains deeply engaged with environmental concerns and media ethics.
Moderator
Charu Singh
Professor Charu Singh is an Assistant Professor of Literature in the Humanities and Languages division of the School of Arts and Sciences at Ahmedabad University. Professor Singh has an interdisciplinary background, completing her bachelor's in education and social sciences and then pursuing her Master's in Hindi Literature from the Centre of Indian Languages, Jawaharlal Nehru University. She then completed her PhD at the University of Delhi, exploring the History of Women's Education in North India. Professor Singh is a literary critic with expertise in literary historiography and Indian literature, especially Hindi Sahitya. Her research focuses on literary historiography, gender, the history of 'Hindutva' Politics in the Literary Sphere, and the politicisation of the Hindi public Sphere. Presently, she is trying to understand the role of Sanskrit and Urdu publications in the emergence of the early Hindi Public sphere and the history of gender in nineteenth-century North India. She is also working on a Historical biography of Srimati Hardevi, a woman reformer and educationist of Colonial Punjab.