M.A. (Distinction) International Relations, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K.

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1 PERSONAL PARTICULARS Dr. Nalin Mehta EDUCATION Ph.D, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia M.A. (Distinction) International Relations, University of East Anglia, Norwich, U.K. B.A. (Honours) Journalism, University of Delhi. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Visiting Senior Research Fellow, Asia Research Institute and Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore Senior Communications Specialist, The Global Fund (the largest multilateral financing institution for global health programs), Geneva, Switzerland. Visiting Fellow, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. - Communication & Advocacy Advisor, UNAIDS (Joint United Nations Program on HIV and AIDS) Deputy News Editor and News Anchor, Times Now (India s most popular 24-hour English satellite news channel run by Times of India Group) Research Fellow (Awarded Solidarity Grant from International Olympic Committee), International Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland Taught undergraduate courses in International Relations and in the history of media and politics, La Trobe University, Melbourne Correspondent and News Anchor, New Delhi Television Reporter and Anchor, Zee Television Network Programme presenter on All India Radio CONSULTANCY EXPERIENCE OR SERVICES RENDERED Consulting editorial expert and commentator for Headlines Today, India Today s 24-hour TV news network Expert and special invitee to Government of India committee for revamping public broadcasting, 27 August 2013 Page 1 of 8

2 chaired by Prime Minister s special advisor Sam Pitroda; headed group of experts for international benchmarking (report submitted in June 2013). -09 Consulting expert (IPL season), Headlines Today, 24-hour TV news network (India Today Group) Editorial Advisor, The Indian (monthly magazine published in Sydney and Canberra for the South Asian diaspora). Convener of consultative drafting group for the Press Council of India s revised guidelines on reporting on HIV and AIDS, published in. EDITORIAL & EDITORIAL BOARD MEMBERSHIPS OF INTERNATIONAL JOURNALS AND BOOK SERIES -present: Joint Editor, South Asian History and Culture (international refereed journal published quarterly), Routledge, U.K. and US. -present: Joint Editor, South Asian History and Culture book series, Routledge, India and UK 2007-present: Member, Editorial Board, Sport and Society: Culture, Commerce, Media, Politics, Routledge, U.K. -present: Member, International Advisory Board, South Asia Research Foundation 2007-present: Book Reviews Editor, South Asia, International Journal of the History of Sport. Routledge, UK OFFICIAL POSITIONS HELD IN ACADEMIC / PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES Honorary Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. -09 Honorary Research Fellow, School of Social Sciences, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia. SHORT BIOGRAPHY Dr. Nalin Mehta is Joint Editor of the international journal South Asian History and Culture (Routledge) and also co-edits the Routledge book series by the same name. Prior to joining ARI, Dr Mehta has held senior positions with the UN and the Global Fund in Geneva, working on issues around global health financing. An award-winning writer and scholar, he has also covered Indian politics for over a decade as a broadcast journalist and published widely on the processes driving political change, the evolution and impact of media industries and sport history. Mehta s books include India on Television: How Satellite Channels Have Changed the Way We Think and Act, [winner of the Asian Publishing Award], the best-selling Sellotape Legacy: Delhi and the Commonwealth Games,, with Boria Majumdar; and a critical social history of Indian sport, Olympics: The India Story,. His edited books include Television in India: Satellites, Politics and Cultural Change, ; Gujarat Beyond Gandhi: Identity, Conflict and Society,, with Mona G. Mehta; and The Changing Face of Cricket: From Imperial to Global Game,, with Jon Gemmell and Dominic Malcolm. 27 August 2013 Page 2 of 8

3 Formerly Deputy News Editor and anchor with Times Now, Mehta writes a weekly column on politics and public culture for the Times of India Group s Mumbai Mirror and its sister publications (Pune Mirror, Ahmedabad Mirror and Bangalore Mirror). A DFID-Commonwealth scholar, Mehta was educated at La Trobe University, Melbourne; University of East Anglia, UK; and the University of Delhi. PUBLICATIONS for the last 5 years including forthcoming publications Authored Book and Monograph Behind a Billion Screens: Inside Indian Television (New Delhi: HarperCollins, forthcoming, in press). *2014 High Command: The Congress After Rajiv Gandhi (New Delhi: HarperCollins, forthcoming, under contract). Olympics: The India Story [Revised and updated 3rd edition, with two new chapters and additional appendix], with Boria Majumdar. Harper Collins, 2012 Sellotape Legacy: Delhi and the Commonwealth Games, with Boria Majumdar (New Delhi: Harper Collins, ). India on Television: How Satellite TV Has Changed the Way We Think and Act (New Delhi: Harper Collins, ). [Awarded Asian Publishing Award for Best Book/Best Writer on Asian Media by the Asian Publishing Convention, Manila.] Second paperback edition forthcoming in 2012., Olympics: The India Story, with Boria Majumdar (New Delhi: Harper Collins, ), subsequently published in UK, US as India and the Olympics (London, New York: Routledge, ). Second paperback edition with two new chapters, forthcoming in 2012 by HarperCollins, New Delhi. Edited Books,2011 Gujarat Beyond Gandhi: Politics, Conflict and Society, with Mona G. Mehta (New Delhi: Routledge, ). Second edition (London, New York: Routledge, 2011)., Television in India: Satellites, Politics and Cultural Change (London, New York: Routledge, ). Second edition (Delhi: Routledge, ). Special issue on 60 years of Gujarat, with Mona G. Mehta, South Asian History and Culture, Oct., Vol. 1, Issue August 2013 Page 3 of 8

4 The Changing Face of Cricket: From Imperial to Global Game (London: Routledge, ), with Dominic Malcolm & Jon Gemmell Cricket: International and Interdisciplinary Approaches, with Dominic Malcolm & Jon Gemmell, special issue of Sport and Society: Culture, Commerce, Media, Politics, Vol. 12, No. 4/5, May- June,. Book Chapters No Blue Books in India: Self-Regulation, Ethics and Indian Television in Shakuntala Rao (ed.), Ethics Matter: Ethics & Justice in the Age of Media Globalization (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, in press). 'When Live News Was Too Dangerous: The Early History of Satellite TV in India', in Bish Sen, Abhijeet Roy (eds.), Fifty Years of Indian Television: Contemporary Perspectives (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, in press). Forthcoming: Ravana s Air Force: A Report on the Status of Indian Television, in Aswin Punathambekar, Shanti Kumar (eds.), Television at Large (New Delhi: Routledge, 2013, forthcoming). Satellites, Politics and India s TV News Revolution: Challenges and Prospects in Amitendu Palit and Gloria Spittel (eds.), South Asia in the New Decade: Challenges and Prospects. World Scientific, Singapore; Danvers, MA, USA, For an Indian Wedding: The Economics and Politics of the Delhi Commonwealth Games, in Andrew Zimbalist, Wolfgang Maennig (eds.), Handbook of Economics of Major Sporting Events (Cheltenham, UK, Northampton, US: Edward Elgar). 2011, Introduction: Notes on Identity, Conflict and Society, with Mona G. Mehta, in Nalin Mehta, Mona G. Mehta (eds.), Gujarat Beyond Gandhi: Politics, Conflict and Society, (New Delhi: Routledge, ), 2nd edition London, New York: Routledge, 2011). 'India Live: Satellites, Politics and India s Satellite TV News Revolution', in Stephen Cushion, Justin Lewis (eds.), Has 24 Hour News Changed the World? (London: Peter Lang, ). 'Breaking News, Indian Style: Politics, Democracy and Indian News Television, in K. Moti Gokul Singh & Wimal Dissanayake (eds.) Popular Culture in a Globalised India (London: Routledge, ) Modi and the Camera: The Politics of Television in the 2002 Gujarat Riots, republished in Knut A. Jacobsen (Ed.), Modern Indian Culture and Society. 4 vols. (London: Routledge, ) 27 August 2013 Page 4 of 8

5 Satellite Television, Identity and Globalisation in Contemporary India, in Nalin Mehta (Ed.), Television in India: Satellites, Politics and Cultural Change (London: Routledge, ) Games of Self-Respect: A Colony at the Olympics, with Boria Majumdar in Christopher Hallinan & Steve J. Jackson (Eds.), Social and Cultural Diversity in a Sporting World (London: Emerald, ) India Talking: Politics, Democracy and News Television, in Nalin Mehta (Ed.), Television in India: Satellites, Politics and Cultural Change (London: Routledge, ) Refereed Article * Oct. 2012, Ravana s Air Force : A Report on the Status of Indian Television, in Aswin Punathambekar, Shanti Kumar (eds.), special issue on South Asian television, South Asian History and Culture, Vol. 3, Issue 4. * July 2012 Colonial India s Olympic Encounter: A Photo Essay, with Boria Majumdar, South Asian History and Culture, (Routledge, Oxford, UK; New York, USA). July 2012, Vol. 3, Issue 3, pp *June 2012 Hybridity and Subversion: The Olympic Flame in India, Sport in Society: Cultures, Commerce, Media, Politics, Vol. 15, Issue 5, (with Boria Majumdar) Ashis Nandy Versus Narendra Modi: Authoritarian Developmentalism, Democracy and Moditva, in Nalin Mehta, Mona Mehta (eds.), special issue on 60 years of Gujarat, South Asian History and Culture, Oct., Vol. 1, Issue 4. HIV and the Gurus: Religiosity, Plurality and the Challenge of Hindu Response to AIDS' in Assa Doron and Alex Broom, (eds.), special issue on 'Health, Culture, and Religion in South Asia', South Asian History and Culture, Mar., Vol. 1, Issue 2. It s Not Just Sport: Delhi and the Olympic Torch Relay, with Boria Majumdar, Sport and Society: Culture, Commerce, Media, Vol. 13, No. 1, Jan.. Cricket and Modernity: International and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Study of the Imperial Game, with Dominic Malcolm and Jon Gemmell, in Nalin Mehta, Dominic Malcolm and Jon Gemmell (Eds.) Cricket: International and Interdisciplinary Approaches, special issue of Sport and Society: Culture, Commerce, Media, Vol. 12, No. 4/5, May-June,. Batting for the Flag: Cricket, Television and Globalisation in India, in Nalin Mehta, Dominic Malcolm and Jon Gemmell (Eds.) Cricket: International and Interdisciplinary Approaches, special issue of Sport and Society: Culture, Commerce, Media, Vol. 12, No. 4/5, May-June,. 27 August 2013 Page 5 of 8

6 Bombay Sport Exchange: Cricket, Globalization and the Future, with Jon Gemmell and Dominic Malcolm, in Nalin Mehta, Dominic Malcolm and Jon Gemmell (Eds.) Cricket: International and Interdisciplinary Approaches, special issue of Sport and Society: Culture, Commerce, Media, Vol. 12, No. 4/5, May-June,. Negotiating 24-Hour News: Satellite Television, Democratic Politics and Globalization in Contemporary India, Asia Annual,. MEDIA WRITING * 25 Aug 2012 Contradictory Trends: Crisis and Expansion in Television East Asia Forum, Vol. 4, No. 1 * July-Aug 2012 Beijing -A Watershed in Indian Sport Biblio: A Review of Books, Vol. XVII, Nos. 7-8, pp * July-Aug The Games Politicians Play Biblio: A Review of Books, Vol. XVII, Nos. 7-8, pp *15 May 2012 Panda and the Elephant at Cross-Purposes, with Robin Jeffrey, Straits Times * 9 May 2012 The do-good show, The Indian Express *The following articles published in Mumbai Mirror [also published in Pune Mirror, Ahmadabad Mirror, Bangalore Mirror]: 1. Mr Modi we presume, 11 June Why Sangma is no Obama 28 May Understanding Chinese whispers, 20 May Once there was a cartoon, May The Politics of the Presidency, 7 May Less Bofors Hypocrisy Please, 30 April, Congress Capital Loss, 23 April Lessons in Self-destruction, 16 April General opportunity, 2 April Why we also need an MEA Mamata s runaway train 12. Dynasty is not enough, 11 March The Ides of Modi, 4 March Why we need our Lindbergh moment, 20 Feb Congress in a caste, 13 Feb Davos Blues, 30 Jan General disarray 23 Jan Dynasties apart, 16 Jan Bridging the knowledge gap, 9 Jan August 2013 Page 6 of 8

7 -2012 Weekly columnist on politics and public culture for the Times of India s Mumbai Mirror (also syndicated in Pune Mirror, Ahmedabad Mirror and Bangalore Mirror). Nalin%20Mehta -09 Regular op-ed contributor to The Indian Express (-09) occasional contributor to The Financial Express (-09), Outlook (2006, ), and The Times of India (-10) Occasional book reviews contributor for Biblio: A Review of Books (New Delhi). *INVITED LECTURES/CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS *21 July 2013 Indian Politics and Economy: An Overview Singapore Ministry of Foreign Affairs Academy *13 May 2013 Innovation, Planning and Regulation for a Robust Media and Entertainment Industry, Invited panel expert at FICCI-Frames Media Industry Summit 2013, Mumbai. *Jan-Feb Ten special lectures on the Indian media business: society, politics and culture, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore *18 Dec 2013 Fault-lines, Institutional Gaps and Reconfiguring the Indian State: What Broadcasting Tells us About Post-Reform India, The Changing State in Asia conference, National University of Singapore. *2 Nov 2012 Indian Media: Myths and Realities, Invited Paper at Argumentative Indian Conference, Australia-India Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia. *5 Nov 2012 Ownership Patterns in the Indian Television Industry, Special Invited Public Lecture at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia. *7 Nov 2012 Regulation, Content and Business: The Case of Indian Television, Invited Lecture at Australian National University, Canberra. *29-30 Oct 2012 The Problem of Politics and Business Models in Indian Television, Invited Panel Expert at Confederation of Indian Industries-Ministry of Information and Broadcasting high-level closed door meeting of Media and Entertainment Industry CEO s: India: The Big Picture Summit. 27 August 2013 Page 7 of 8

8 *13-14 Aug 2012 A Turning Point in Indian Sport: The Media Business and Sporting Cultures, The Olympics Games: Meeting New Challenges conference, University of Oxford, jointly with London 2012 Organizing Committee. *2-3 June 2012 The State of Indian Television: A Report, India-China Media Dialogue conference, ISAS, National University of Singapore. *GRANT AND CONFERENCE ORGANISATION Awarded ARI grant for a conference on The Changing State in Asia, with Prof. Prasenjit Duara, $5,000 (with supplementary funding from DPRT). Conference jointly organized with Prof. Duara on Dec. 2012, second leg in May 2014 with Harvard-Yenching Institute ANY OTHER INFORMATION Awarded Government of Australia s Excellence in Media and Entertainment Alumni Award. Awarded Asian Multimedia Publishing Award by the Asian Publishing Convention, Manila, for Best Book/Best Writer on Asian Media (for India on Television: New Delhi, Harper Collins, ). -09 Member, Honorary International Board of Scholars, International Football Institute, University of Central Lancashire, Awarded Commonwealth Scholarship Award under the DFID-Association of Commonwealth Universities Shared Scheme. 27 August 2013 Page 8 of 8