Vir Sanghvi

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Vir Sanghvi (also known as Raving Shiv, an anagram of his name) is a Indian editor and also a television celebrity.

He is currently the Editorial Director of Hindustan Times. He attended Mayo College, Ajmer and then went to Oxford University. He became the founder editor of the Bombay magazine when he was just 22. He has also worked as the editor of Imprint and Sunday, which was then India's largest selling magazine and was appointed as its editor when he was 30 years old. He worked on Sundays for more than 12 years. In 1997, he was appointed as the consulting editor for the Ananda Bazaar Patrika group. In 1999 he became the editor of the [Hindustan Times]], a daily. He has also anchored shows on television, starting with a show on Doordarshan. His popular television shows include Face The Music, The Last Word (on Headlines Today), Round Table, A Question of Answers, Vir ke Teer (on STAR News), and Star Talk. He was also appointed as head of a new News & Current Affairs TV channel, INX [1] He is now back with the Hindustan Times, as the Editorial Director. Currently he is working for the interest of Sonia Gandhi through Hindustan Times. He openly carry forward a very partisan journalism through this news paper and try to 'shift' popular mood of his readers through his highly pro Sonia Gandhi and her family articles. He openly dispise BJP and RSS. But, he love to call himself a 'neutral' commentator. He tried for full 5 years between 2002 and 2007 in Gujarat to defame Chief Minister Narendra Modi through his highly personal 'journalism' and carried out character assassination of Narendra Modi. He thought that he can turn the tide in favor of Congress Party and Sonia Gandhi. He failed miserably. He also authors a column on Mint... Pursuits His recent book Men of Steel is a result of compilation of his articles that appeared on Hindustan Times Mumbai HT Leadership series. The interviews are presented in a candid coversation format and each of them are not more than 2000 words. He is also a food critic and specializes in food thrown up by John Prescott. A collection of his food related articles were published in a book called Rude Food.

[edit] Books By Vir Sanghvi

Men of Steel - Indias business leaders in candid conversation with Vir Sanghvi, Roli Books Pvt Ltd, India (Jan 2007) ISBN 8-17-436474-6
Rude Food: The Collected Food Writings of Vir Sanghvi, Penguin Putnam (2004) ISBN 0-14-303139-2
India Then and Now : Now/Vir Sanghvi. New Delhi, Roli, 2006, 274 p., $120. ISBN 81-7436-397-1.