\tThirteen out of India Today magazine’s 2013 ranking of the 50 most powerful people in India have interests in the media, but only two of them (former Indian Express editor Arun Shourie, Times Now editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami, Indian Express editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta) are pure-play journalists. The chairman of the press council of India, Justice Markandey Katju, is a new entry at No. 50, just as Gupta is at No. 45, Hindustan Times bosswoman Shobhana Bhartia at No. 39 and Star India CEO Uday Shankar at No. 26.<\/p>\n
\tNo. 1: <\/strong>Mukesh Ambani, chairman, Reliance Industries and “virtual owner” of TV18 (up from No. 3 in 2012)<\/p>\n \tNo. 4:<\/strong> Kumaramangalam Birla, chairman Aditya Birla group, and 27.5% stake holder in Living Media (up from No. 5): “sings Hindi film songs, although only in close family circles”<\/p>\n \tNo. 7: <\/strong>Samir Jain and Vineet Jain, The Times of India, down from No.6 last year<\/p>\n \tNo. 26: <\/strong>Uday Shankar, CEO, Star India (new entry)<\/p>\n \tNo. 28: <\/strong>Kalanidhi Maran, chairman and MD of Sun Group (up from 49 last year)<\/p>\n \tNo. 31: <\/strong>Mahendra Mohan Gupta and Sanjay Gupta, chairman and CEO, Dainik Jagran (No. 31 last year)<\/p>\n \tNo. 35: <\/strong>Subhash Chandra, chairman, Zee television and DNA (No. 35 last year)<\/p>\n \tNo. 39: <\/strong>Shobhana Bhartia, chairman and editorial director, HT Media (new entry): Her home in Friends Colony (West) in Delhi was acquired from the erstwhile royal family of Jind.<\/p>\n \tNo. 36: <\/strong>Raghav Bahl, MD, Network 18 (up from No. 44)<\/p>\n \tNo. 38: <\/strong>Arun Shourie (new entry): His dictum: “We must learn to be satisfied with enough and enough is what we have at the moment.”<\/p>\n \tNo. 41: <\/strong>Arnab Goswami (up from 46): “Plays loud music on his iPod before every show to unwind.”<\/p>\n \tNo. 45: <\/strong>Shekhar Gupta (new entry)<\/p>\n \tNo. 50: <\/strong>Justice Markandey Katju, chairman, press council of India (new entry): The Ph.D. in Sanskrit asked Lucknow lawyer S.K. Kalia who entred his court, ‘Ab tera kya hoga Kalia‘?<\/p>\n \t\u0938\u093e\u092d\u093e\u0930- wearethebest blog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \tThirteen out of India Today magazine’s 2013 ranking of the 50 most powerful people in India have interests in the media, but only two of them (former Indian Express editor Arun Shourie, Times Now editor-in-chief Arnab Goswami, Indian Express editor-in-chief Shekhar Gupta) are pure-play journalists. The chairman of the press council of India, Justice Markandey Katju, is a new entry at No. 50, just as Gupta is at No. 45, Hindustan Times bosswoman Shobhana Bhartia at No. 39 and Star India CEO Uday Shankar at No. 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-print"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bhadas4media.com\/old1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}