Deepak Parvatiyar

Who is Deepak Parvatiyar?

Deepak Parvatiyar is an Indian journalist. His articles on various social and political issues have been published in prominent Indian publications such as The Times of India, The Free Press Journal, Onlooker, The Illustrated Weekly of India, Newstime, Eenadu, Sahara Time etc. His coverage of catastrophes such as the Bombay riots of 1993, the Bombay Blasts of 1993, the 1994 plague epidemic in Surat, the Gujarat earthquake of 2001, and the Maoist seizure of the Kathmandu Valley in Nepal in 2005 are well chronicled from time to time in various media. His views are often sought by international media and his reports are often cited by prestigious organisations such as the Planning Commission of India, the National Commission for Women, Regional Centre for Strategic Studies, Sri Lanka, The US Department of Commerce etc. Deepak has spent almost twenty years in journalism and has held prestigious position in the media industry. He was the Acting Chief Reporter of one of Bombay's oldest newspapers, Free Press Journal, when he was just 24 years of age. In 1994, he set up the Gujarat bureau of Andhra Pradesh's largest circulated daily, Eenadu.