Prannoy Roy anchoring a news program on NDTV

Prannoy Roy (born on October 15, 1949) is an Indian media figure. He is founder and the president of New Delhi Television (NDTV). Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... October 15 is the 288th day of the year (289th in leap years). ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1949 calendar). ... NDTV (New Delhi Television Limited) (founded in 1988) is one of Indias largest television production houses. ...

Roy attended The Doon School, Dehradun and went to Haileybury (UK) for his A-levels. He graduated in Economics from the University of London's Queen Mary College in 1973. Then he got his Ph.D from the Delhi School of Economics where he also taught for a year. He worked as Chartered Accountant for some time and later joined PriceWaterhouseCoopers, India before moving over to television. The Doon School is a public school and a boarding school located in Dehra Dun in India; today, it is perhaps Indias best-known school. ... Dehradun (Hindi: देहरादून)  , also sometimes spelled Dehra Doon, is the provisional capital city of the Uttarakhand state (earlier called Uttaranchal) in India, and the headquarters of Dehradun District. ... Haileybury is a name used by various places and institutions: Places Haileybury, Ontario in Canada Institutions Haileybury and Imperial Service College, a coeducational English public school Lambrook Haileybury junior school at Winkfield Row, Bracknell, Berks. ... This article is about the British A-Level examination. ... The University of London is a university based primarily in London. ... Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) (until 2000 Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London and still called that in its charter [1] and occasionally still abbreviated to QMW) is the fourth largest College of the University of London. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Delhi School of Economics, started in 1949, is a conglomerate of three departments, affiliated to the University of Delhi. ... A PwC office building (Southwark Towers) in London, England. ...

He rose to fame with the program The World This Week and the election coverage with Vinod Dua on Doordarshan. He has also worked for the STAR TV. He specializes in covering elections. He is also a well-known economist and has served as an economic adviser to the Ministry of Finance. Vinod Dua is one of the most well known names of the Indian media. ... nikatdarshan () is a Public broadcast Terrestrial television channel run by Prasar Bharati, a board nominated by the Government of India. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... The finance minister is a cabinet position in a government. ...

He is married to Radhika Roy (sister of Brinda Karat), who is a speech therapist and the vice-president of NDTV. He is the cousin of award winning novelist and activist Arundhati Roy. These factors are believed to be resulting in the obvious left-leaning slant of his channel. Brinda Karat (b. ... Suzanna Arundhati Roy[1] (born November 24, 1961) is an Indian novelist, writer and activist. ...

External links

• A short biography
• Profile at BBC
• Profile at NDTV