Yashwant Vyas is an

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author, journalist, translator and editor. He is Group editorial adviser with

Amar Ujala ''Amar Ujala'' is a Hindi-language daily newspaper published in India which was founded in 1948. It has 21 editions in six states and two union territories covering 180 districts. It has a circulation of around two million copies. The 2017 Ind ...

newspaper group and founder of Antara Infomedia. He headed an Indian multilingual portal group in the 1990s and has worked for three national newspapers. He has written more than ten books and scripts.

Career and works

Yashwant Vyas started his career as a journalist with Naiduniya, a Hindi newspaper group in 1985. He wrote columns for Naiduniya,

Dainik Bhaskar ''Dainik Bhaskar ''is India's largest Hindi-language daily newspaper owned by the Dainik Bhaskar Group. According to Audit Bureau of Circulations, it is ranked 3rd in the world by circulation and is the largest newspaper in India by circula ...

, Hans, Jansatta among others. Yari Dushmani,

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, Rasbhang and

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were his columns. He was awarded the KK Birla-HT journalism Fellowship under which his research regarding changing face of regional Hindi press was much appreciated. This research is published by

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as ''Apane Gireban Men''. Another work of research was done by him in the form of a book, ''Kal Ki Taza Khabar'', published by Vagdevi. He joined the Navjyoti Group in Jaipur in 1996 as group adviser. After working with a multilingual news portal company in Delhi for a year, he moved to

Group as an editor. Later, he created Aha ''Zindagi'', first of its own style magazine. Its circulation reached 134,000 print copies and over 500,000 readers. Five years later, he left DB Corp and joined Amar Ujala newspaper group as Group Adviser. He is a co-founder of Antara Infomedia, a collaboration of digital and print. His first novel ''Chinta Ghar'' was published by Rajkamal Prakashan with an introduction by

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. His second novel, ''Comrade Godse'', discussed media, politics and the murky "art of riots". Both novels won awards, One from Madhya Pradesh Sahitya Parishad and other from the K.K. Birla Foundation. The novels were later published together as ''Khwab Ke Do Din''. Comrade Godse also translated in Gujarati. ''In'' ''Dinon Prem urf Lout Aao Neelkamal and Yaari Dushmani'' are collection of his columns. His collection of satires ''AbT ak 56 is'' published by

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. He has written a book on management, ''Hit Updesh: The Book of Razor Management'', an analysis of the

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brand titled ''Amitabh Ka A'', and ''Boskiyana'', a conversation with filmmaker

Gulzar Sampooran Singh Kalra (born 18 August 1934), known professionally as Gulzar, is an Indian Urdu poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, and film director known for his works in Hindi cinema. He is regarded as one of greatest Urdu poets of this ...

. A collection of short satirical stories, ''Kavi Ki Manohar Kahaniyan'', was released in January 2021.

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