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Hartosh Singh Bal is currently the political editor of ''
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'' magazine He is also an adjunct faculty member at Jindal School of Journalism & Communication at the
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. He had been the political editor of ''OPEN'' magazine.


Education

Bal pursued his undergraduate education in Mechanical Engineering from
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. He then went on to pursue an MS in mathematics from
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, USA.


Career

In November 2013, Bal was controversially fired from his position of political editor of ''OPEN'' magazine. In an interview, ''OPENs former Editor
Manu Joseph Manu Joseph (born 22 July 1974) is an Indian journalist and writer. He is the former editor of ''Open'' magazine. Life and career Manu was born in Kottayam, Kerala, and grew up in Chennai. His father Joseph Madapally is a film maker who directe ...
revealed that the magazine's proprietor,
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, had told Joseph that Bal's views, expressed in his writings and in television appearances, were resulting in him "making a lot of... political enemies."


Books

Bal has co-written a novel called '' A Certain Ambiguity'' which won the 2007
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award for the best professional/scholarly book in
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. His second book--"Waters close over us"—is part-travelogue and partly a sociological, political, artistic, historical, and anthropological commentary.


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''OPEN'' magazine
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''The Caravan''
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