Prabhu Chawla is Editorial Consultant with TV Today Network. He hosts the iconic, award-winning TV show Seedhi Baat on AajTak, interviewing the most prominent personalities of the nation. Straight talk, no-holds barred, hot button topics to grill top political leaders, business moguls, corporate leaders, screen icons and creative personalities. He also lends his sharp expertise to political debates for the India Today Group.

Prabhu is a renowned political expert, commentator, and journalist with a career spanning 4 decades. As Group Editorial Director and Editor, India Today, he led the editorial team which oversaw the transition of the magazine from a fortnightly to weekly and launched its regional editions in Hindi, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam. He was also the Editor of the Indian Express and Editor-in-Chief and CEO of the Financial Express. In his current assignment as the Editorial Director of The New Indian Express Group, he continues to redefine journalism as one of India’s most credible media personalities.

In 2003, Prabhu Chawla was awarded the Padma Bhushan by the President of India. He has also won several national awards including The Hero Honda-Indian Television Academy (ITA) Best Anchor award for `SeedhiBaat’ 2005; TV News Anchor of the year -Telly Awards 2003; TSR Kalapeetham Life Time Achievement Award for 1998; the GK Reddy Memorial Award for investigative reporting and current affairs-1989 and the Feroze Gandhi Memorial Award for excellence in journalism 1985-86. Prabhu is regularly invited to events organized by national and international academic institutions, Think Tanks and TEDx to talk on contemporary politics, civil society issues, the economy and leadership.

A post graduate in Economics from Delhi University, Chawla taught the subject for over a decade at DU before joining journalism in 1978.