Paranjoy Guha Thakurta has been a journalist since 1977. His works cuts across different media-print, radio, television, the internet and documentary films-in three languages, English, Bengali and Hindi. He has worked full time with Business India, Business World, The Telegraph, India Today, The Pioneer and the TV18-CNBC television channel (for which he anchored a daily discussion and interview based programme for nearly six years). He has directed a number of documentary films, including one on the impact of television on Indian society 'Idiot Box or Window of Hope', one entitled 'Grabbing Eyeballs: What's Unethical About Television News in India' and another five-part series on the resource curse of India's main coal mining region 'Hot As Hell: A Profile of Dhanbad'. He teaches at various educational institutions, spoken and acted as a consultant on subjects related to his areas of interest-India's polity, its economy and media. He headed an educational institution, the School of Convergence as its director for six years. He is currently an independent media practitioner and commentator.