My Compelling Story

Does Abhigyan Prakash smoke?: Not Known.Does Abhigyan Prakash drink alcohol?: Not Known.He is one of the best-known faces of Indian television news because of his prolific anchoring.Abhigyan is the Senior Executive Director of NDTV, for which, he has hosted some of the channels top-rated shows, like Newspoint, Muqabla..He has, in his career of over two decades as a journalist, hosted shows with some of the renowned politicians, sportsmen, film stars, and businessmen.Abhigyan is an opposite the editorial page (op-ed) columnist for Dainik Jagran, a Hindi language newspaper.With his core strength in political reading, Abhigyan has done live election analysis for legislative assembly as well as parliamentary elections since 1996.When NDTV India was launched in 2003, Abhigyan was the one to take the channels operation to the western India with the then most viewed show, Mumbai Central..Abhigyan, who used to be an English language journalist, shifted to the Hindi in 2003. This made him one of the best bilingual presenters in the country.His team had won Presidents Medal for exposing the Telgi Scam, which was a multi-crore fake stamp paper scam. Four years after the case was filed in the court, the prime accused, Abdul Karim Telgi was awarded a 13-year rigorous imprisonment and a fine of INR 202 Crores, in June 2007.