Uday Mahurkar

Uday Mahurkar (born 28 September 1962) is an Indian journalist, political analyst and author. He is a deputy editor at the India Today group. In October 2020, he has been appointed as the Information Commissioner by the Government of India. Mahurkar was born in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. His family moved to Gujarat after independence. He had his education in Baroda, a former Maratha Princely state. He graduated in Indian history Culture and Archaeology from Maharaja Sayajirao University in 1983 and joined The Indian Express in the same year as a sub-editor at Ahmedabad.[citation needed] In 2017, Mahurkar authored the book Marching with a Billion about the model of Narendra Modi's governance as Prime Minister. The book's foreword is written by economist Professor Klaus Schwab, founder and architect of the World Economic Forum.