Karan Thapar

He also writes for The Indian Express, a leading Indian daily, as a columnist. On 21 April 2017, he wrote an article named "The Mysterious Mr. Jadhav" about the death sentence given to Mr Kulbhushan Yadav.

In April 2014, Thapar quit CNN-IBN to joined India Today, where he hosted the show titled To the Point and Nothing But The Truth.

Thapar is noted for his aggressive interviews with leading politicians and celebrities. A few of his shows which have been much watched are Eyewitness, Tonight at 10, In Focus with Karan, Line of Fire, War of Words Devil's Advocate and The Last Word. In 2007, Thapar famously interviewed current Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (then the Chief Minister of Gujarat) and Modi stopped the interview just three minutes in, refusing to continue.

He began his career in journalism with The Times in Lagos, Nigeria and later worked as their Lead Writer on the Indian subcontinent till 1981. In 1982 he joined London Weekend Television in the United Kingdom where he worked for the next 11 years. He moved to India in 1991 and worked with The Hindustan Times Television Group, Home TV and United Television before setting up his own production house in August 2001, Infotainment Television, which makes programmes for amongst others BBC, Doordarshan and Channel News Asia. He is currently the President of Infotainment Television.

He is an alumnus of The Doon School in Dehradun and the Stowe School. While at Doon, Thapar was the Editor-in-chief of the school magazine The Doon School Weekly. He graduated with a degree in Economics and Political Philosophy from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1977. In the same year, he was also President of the Cambridge Union. He subsequently obtained a doctorate in International Relations from St Antony's College, Oxford.

Karan Thapar (born 5 November 1955) is an Indian journalist and television commentator and interviewer, working with The Wire. He was associated with CNN-IBN and hosted The Devil's Advocate and The Last Word. He was also associated with India Today and hosted the shows To the Point and Nothing But The Truth.