THE EDITOR IN-CHIEF

YATINDRA BHATNAGAR

Photo by M.K. Roashan

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Yatindra Bhatnagar, brings with him more than half a century of experience as a journalist, author and poet. He has worked for newspapers, radio and television. His vast background and long association with the media in India, and the United States, extensive travels, and meeting with top lawmakers and celebrities, opinion makers and ordinary people from all walks of life have made him the ideal choice for leading this unique Internet magazine.

Yatindra Bhatnagar has written over 20 books on a wide variety of subjects, from international affairs to poetry to biography to travel. His varied interests in diverse fields have made Internationalopinion the foremost Internet magazine on a wide variety of subjects. He has worked for daily, weekly and monthly newspapers. He has done over three thousand radio and TV programs of talks, interviews and events reporting/commenting. He has founded newspapers and magazines and nurtured them from their birth to respectable heights of excellence and wider acceptance.

Accomplishments

Over six decades in Journalism - print, radio, TV, social, cultural, and educational organizations. Reported, written and lectured, both in English and Hindi, on a wide variety of subjects from religion and politics to poetry, international relations and education to sports, social and cultural activities to travel, arts to biographies, and more.
Hundreds of TV/radio talk shows, interviews with political, cultural and social personalities, in the U.S., India, Korea, Yugoslavia, Egypt, Germany, U.K. etc. Regular analyst/commentator/interviewer on Radio and TV in India.
Covered the proceedings of the Parliament of India for nearly two decades and had meetings with leaders such as Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Chandrashekhar, I.K. Gujaral, Dr. Karan Singh, Chief Ministers of States, and others on a daily basis. Attended scores of lunches-banquets-receptions at Rashtrapati Bhavan, and met with top dignitaries.
Interviews-informal talks-private briefings-major press conferences with hundreds of top leaders in various fields of activity. These include Presidents Rajendra Prasad, S. Radhakrishnan, Zakir Hussain, Fakhruddin Ali Ahmad, R. Venkataraman, Zail Singh; Prime Ministers Jawaharlal Nehru, Gulzari Lal Nanda, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi, Morarji Desai, Charan Singh, Deve Gowda; Deputy Prime Ministers Jagjivan Ram and L.K. Advani; Lok Sabha Speakers Sanjeeva Reddy, G.S. Dhillon, Balram Jakhar; Vice Presidents, Governors, Federal and State Ministers, and top Civil Servants; Chiefs of India's Defense Services such as Field Marshal Manekshaw, and General T.N. Raina, Admiral Nanda, and Air Chief Marshals P.C. Lal, O.P. Mehra, S. Mulgaokar, and others. Have also met and interviewed celebrities in literature, music and dance, films, visual arts, and sports, both Indian and foreign. Met, chatted with and interviewed a number of foreign leaders including Queen Elizabeth, Prince Charles, Vice President Richard Nixon of the US, the King of Bhutan Jigme Singye Wangchuk, Kings of Nepal Mahendra and Birendra, the Emperor of Japan Akihito (when Crown Prince), and his wife, Michiko, King Sihanouk of Cambodia, Crown Prince Hasan of Jordan, the late Shah of Iran, other kings, presidents, prime ministers, etc on a visit to India.
Traveled as guest of the governments of the United States, East and West Germany, Egypt, Australia, Hungary, Romania, Taiwan, South Korea, Mexico, Austria and Bhutan. Also visited Vietnam, Hong Kong, Singapore, Pakistan, Czechoslovakia, Bangladesh, Britain, Indonesia, Japan, Thailand, Turkey, France, Bulgaria, Spain, Nepal and Switzerland. Traveled extensively in India visiting major cities from Dwarka (Gujarat) in the West to Kohima (Nagaland) in the East, from Leh/Srinagar (Jammu & Kashmir) in the North to Kanyakumari (Tamilnadu) in the South. In addition, have also visited Indira Point (Andaman-Nicobar Islands), the southernmost tip of India.
Have closely seen history being made on numerous occasions, and also helped to make history on some.
Received a special United Nations Fellowship while in India, to attend and report a U.N. conference in Mexico City.
Over a hundred poems, many award-winning, featured in several collections.
Author of over 20 books written both in English and Hindi, including: Bangladesh, Birth of a Nation; Mujib, The Architect of Bangladesh; Australiana, A Visit to Remember; Korean Experience; President Tito; Autumn Leaves (a collection of own poems); contributions in Discovery in Europe, Into the Sun, Great American Poetry Anthology, and The Golden Treasury of Great Poems; The Far East by Prof. Paul Clyde of Duke University (translated into Hindi).
Contributing Editor of International Business Group of publications, and India Times. Numerous news reports, feature articles and special articles. Active member of various religious, community, and cultural organizations.
Self-starter, hard-worker and achiever - worked right through the mill to reach top positions in various daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and magazines in the India and the U.S. Helped start several newspapers, and magazines.
Strong motivator - helped Indore University, India to set up the Department of Journalism, and taught for a year.
Leader and initiator - Arranged seminars, events, celebrations, fundraisers, and conferences. Regularly led and moderated discussions at Community Centers on current affairs, social and literary topics, and poetry sessions.
Honorary Deputy Sheriff of Tarrant County, Texas, appointed in 1965 on a visit to the State, as a guest.

Professional Experience

INTERNATIONAL OPINION, web magazine on current affairs Chief Editor of www.internationalopinion.com - now under redevelopment	Sept. 2001-current
INDIA POST, weekly newspaper, California, Chicago, New York Chief Editor	Mar 1994 - Dec 1997
THE INDIAN VOICE, First regular size newsweekly, Artesia, California Chief Editor	1991 - 1992
INTERINGS, AND DIACCENT, Diamond Companies Publicist and Telemarketing Chief in Los Angeles	1987 - 1988
DAINIK BHASKAR, daily newspaper, the largest Hindi newspaper chain in India Chief Editor	Mar 1983 - Dec 1985
DAINIK HINDUSTAN of Hindustan Times Group, New Delhi, India Chief of News Bureau Wrote for all six papers of the Hindustan Times Group for over three decades	Sep 1952 - Feb 1983
TRAVIANA, magazine on travel, aviation, and adventure, New Delhi, India Editorial Advisor, writer	1974 - 1975
CHITRA KALA SANGAM, New Delhi, India Press/Events Organizer Helped this social-cultural-art organization to grow from local to national level	1955 - 1983
PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, Philadelphia, PA Guest Journalist, reporter/writer As part of multi-national journalist program	1965
FORT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM, Fort Worth, Texas Guest Journalist, reporter/writer As part of multi-national journalist program	1965

Education

Citizen Police Academy course, Fremont, CA, 2004.

Completed a special multi-national course for foreign journalists at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. 1965-66. The project was sponsored by the U.S. State Department.

Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism (JD) and University Graduate (BA), Panjab University, Chandigarh, India.

Elementary/high school education in Indore, Bombay, and New Delhi.