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Columnist and writer: Business Standard: Author, The Indian Media Business (5 editions) & The Making of Star India.
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Claim your profileVanita Kohli-Khandekar is an India-based media specialist. She has been tracking the Indian media and entertainment business for two decades. Currently she is a columnist and writer for Business Standard, one of India's leading financial papers. Her podcast The Media Room appears on The Core. She also writes on and off for ContentAsia, a Singapore-based publication. Her earlier stints include one at Businessworld magazine and EY. A Cambridge University press fellow (2000), Vanita has taught at some of the top media schools in India and has several research papers to her name. The fifth edition of her first book, The Indian Media Business (Sage) was released in October 2021. The first four editions have sold 15,000 copies so far. It has also been published in Hindi and Marathi. Her second book The Making of Star India, a look at Rupert Murdoch's India adventure (Penguin), released in August 2019. It is currently being developed into a web-series.
Music at University Of CambridgeGraduated: 2000
Marketing at Welingkar Institute Of ManagementGraduated: 1992
Bachelor Of Commerce, Writing at Mithibai CollegeGraduated: 1989