Om Thanvi

Who is Om Thanvi?

Om Thanvi Phalodi, Distt. Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India is a writer and editor.

Om Thanvi grew-up in Bikaner and took his post graduation degree in Business Administration from Rajasthan University . He joined mainstream Hindi journalism in 1980 in Jaipur. Currently he is the editor of Jansatta, a newspaper of Indian Express Group published from Delhi.

He had been Secretary General of Editors Guild of India for two terms as well as Vice President of the South Asia Free Media Association and member of the National Integration Council, headed by Prime Minister of India. He is on the Advisory Council of the India International Center, New Delhi.

Before joining Jansatta in Delhi, he had worked in Chandigarh for ten years as its resident editor. These were the years when Punjab was in the grip of terrorism and all the institutions of democracy, including the press, were under severe attack. Jansatta remained the only major paper that did not succumb to the "Code of Conduct" imposed by the terrorists on press.

Prior to joining Jansatta, Om Thanvi had edited Itwari Patrika, a Hindi literary and cultural weekly and had also worked as editor-in-charge of Rajasthan Patrika in Bikaner, the widely read daily of Rajasthan.