Rajiv Mehrotra
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Rajiv Mehrotra hosts one of India's longest running talk shows on public television, "In Conversations", that has been through several incarnations over more than twenty years. It is aired on the Doordarshan News Channel on Saturdays at 9.30 pm.
Mehrotra has published several books including The Mind of The Guru, Understanding The Dalai Lama, The Essential Dalai Lama, all by Penguin/ Viking. A biography of Sri Ramakrishna, Thakur, is under publication by Penguin/Viking. He has advances from them for a book on creativity: The Spirit of The Muse, and a spiritual biography of His Holiness The Dalai Lama. He is working on a 25 part series for television on Swami Vivekananda.
Mehrotra works as Managing Trustee, Executive Producer and Commissioning Editor of The Public Service Broadcasting Trust that has produced more than 200 documentary films winning some 30 awards from 150 international film festival screenings. He has won several international and five national awards from the President of India. He has directed films such as a ten part series for television on Sri Ramakrishna (The Great Swan), Angkor Vat (Axis Mundi), the places of Buddhist pilgrimage sites in India (The Footsteps of the Buddha), the Krishnamurthi Schools (Awakening of Intelligence), The Tabo Kye monastery (Sacral Legacy), on the Dalai Lama for PBS in the US (Ocean of Wisdom) etc.
Rajiv Mehrotra has extensive and pioneering experience in virtually all aspects of television and radio production, as director, cinematographer and editor. He has anchored a range of live and recorded programme genres in English from his early teens. He reported “live” as a news-anchor and served as a reporter for public television during the 1980s on assignments in India and abroad.
Mehrotra manages, as the Honorary Secretary/Trustee, The Foundation for Universal Responsibility of His Holiness The Dalai Lama, [1] established with the Nobel Peace Prize, and serves as the Managing Trustee of The Public Service Broadcasting Trust [2], Trustee of the Norbulinka Institute of Tibetan Culture and the Navdanya Trust.
Mehrotra has twice addressed plenary sessions at The World Economic Forum at Davos and was nominated a Global Leader for Tomorrow by them. He has served as a Judge for The Templeton Prize for Religion, on the Governing Council of the Sri Aurobindo Society, The Film and Television Institute of India and as the Chairman of the Jury of the 50th anniversary Indian National Film Awards. Rajiv Mehrotra has been on the Steering Committees of the Planning Commission to recommend policy & strategies for Information & Broadcasting, Information Technology etc, The committee on Bridging The Digital Divide, The Organising Committee of the Mumbai International Film Festival etc.
Mehrotra lives in Delhi with his wife, Meenakshi Gopinath.
