Om Thanvi

Om Thanvi born at 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 started journalism in his student days in 1977 contributing to weekly 'Marudeep', daily 'Yugpaksh' (Bikaner) and weekly 'Reviver' (Calcutta), joined mainstream Hindi journalism working with Rajasthan Patrika group in Jaipur. He edited Patrika group's weekly Itwari Patrika, then Bikaner edition of daily Rajasthan Patrika. In 1989 he joined Jansatta, a newspaper of Indian Express Group published from Delhi. He was Resident editor of the daily's Chandigarh edition (1989-1999). Then the editor of Jansatta in Delhi (1999-2015). At present he is Visiting Professor at the Centre for Media Studies, School of Social Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU).

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 (SAFMA). He was member of the National Integration Council, headed by Prime Minister of India and is on the Advisory Council of the India International Center (IIC), New Delhi.

He has deeply been involved with environmental activities. In 1986 he was awarded the journalism fellowship by Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) to study Conventional Water Harvesting Methods of the Desert. He travelled extensively the arid zone to study the philosophy of water conservation, ways of living, particularly unique relationship with water in the Thar desert. That study later became a much talked and researched subject among the environmentalists all over. The Times of India interviewed him on front page: an unusual occasion in journalism when one journalist (Usha Rai) was interviewing another. He attended United Nation’s first conference on climate change called Earth Summit at Rio de Janeiro 1992 and it’s preparatory conference held in Paris. In 2012 He was among few journalists who attended Rio summit, called Rio+20, again.

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