Nihar Kothari

Nihar is an Executive Editor and Director at the Patrika Group, amongst the top 10 media houses of India, the group has developed a special penchant for unique citizen participation along with its credible and dynamic journalistic practices. Nihar holds a Master’s Degree in Economics and is an alumnus of Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad and Media Management Centre, Northwestern University, Illinois. He is associated with Pratham Rajasthan, a social initiative for education, Chairs Rupayan, an organization working in area of folk music and culture and the Indian Council for Cultural Relations on their boards.  Is associated with a number of other organisations in different areas of work including disability, youth, education, sports, arts, etc. in the past he was heading the Indian office of AIESEC and was part of their global strategy team.

Patrika Group is one of the largest media houses in India owning newspapers, cable networks, electronic media, radio stations, outdoor media, event management, education, mobile publishing, web publishing, publication, yellow pages etc.  The flagship Rajasthan Patrika and Patrika one of the largest circulated Hindi dailies of India with 28 print locations across the country. Patrika is the widely read newspaper with a daily circulation of almost 2.4 million copies with readership of over 20 million. It is among the top five most-read Hindi daily newspapers of India. The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has ranked Rajasthan Patrika as the 29th largest newspaper in the world. Patrika has figured among the top five successful Asian Community Newspapers in a survey conducted by AMIC, Singapore for UNESCO.