Gopinath Chandran is an Indian television Anchor, radio jockey, journalist, reporter, news presenter/moderator, entrepreneur, and a writer, currently featured on the

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debate show ''

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''. He is popularly known as "Neeya Naana Gopinath."

Early life

Gopinath was born in

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Pudukkottai district Pudukkottai District is one of the 38 districts of Tamil Nadu state in southern India. The city of Pudukkottai is the district headquarters. It is also known colloquially as ''Pudhugai.'' Pudukkottai district is bounded on the northeast and e ...

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to Chandran and Kumudham Chandran in 1975

Career

Gopinath began his career in 1997 with

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and later he went on to join

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. He did reporting assignments for

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and CNBC TV-18. Later he joined

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and anchored ''Makkal Yaar Pakkam'', a political analysis programme. In 2006, he started his position with ''

''. He has been an anchor for television series such as ''Makkal Yaar pakkam'', ''Nadanthadhu enna?'', ''Sigaram thotta Manidargal'' and ''En Desam! En Makkal'' in 2013. He was a radio jockey (RJ) at Radio City, and hosted their breakfast shows. He has written five books. The first was a collection of poems, ''Theruvellam Devathaigal'', and was published in 2007. The second book, ''Please indha Puthagathai vaangatheenga'' was based on personality development which is still topping the charts and has sold over 4 lakh copies till date. The third was a self-motivating and self-analysing book called ''Neeyum Naanum''. Gopinath's fourth book is ''Ner Ner Thema'', a collection of interviews. The recent book "Nimirnthu Nil" was published in Nakkeeran, Tamil Weekly and later got published in 2015. Of all his works he quotes ''PASSWORD'' as the one that is close to his heart. He also wrote a series of articles with the title ' in ''Aananda Vikatan''. It is known for its scripted motivation. This article was translated into English as "You And Me".

Television works

Filmography

References

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