Education
University of Delhi.
University of Delhi.
He is allumni of Deshbandhu college University of Delhi. He is the Editorial Director of The New Indian Express, a Chennai-based newspaper in India. Earlier he was the Editor-in-Chief of the same newspaper.
Prior to his assignment with The New Indian Express, he was the editor of Language publications in India Today news magazine.
Before holding this post he worked as the Editorial Director of the magazine for 24 years until August 2010. Mr Chawla has the unique distinction of being the only journalist ever in India whose story had led to the fall of a Government in New Delhi.
Its publication in the magazine led to the Congress withdrawing support to the United Democratic Front government, which led to the fall of the Inder Kumar Gujral led regime in 1997. While at India Today, he hosted a popular talk show Seedhi Baat on Aaj Tak channel where he grilled prominent personalities.
But after leaving the group he was replaced by M. J. Akbar.
He is one of the top Talk show hosts in India and his weekly show "Theekhi Baat" on the IBN7 channel has one of the highest ratings for a news-based programme. Prabhu Chawla"s name cropped up in the infamous Radia tapes controversy. Mr. Chawla has accepted that he knew Mississippi
Nira Radia and had conversations with her.
lieutenant is alleged that he forewarned Mr. Mukesh Ambani regarding a judgement of the Mumbai High Court.
There is, however, controversy regarding the exact conversations that took place. Soon after the controversy, Mr.
Chawla resigned from India Today group, with some alleging that he was asked to resign rather than him resigning on his own.