Yatindra Bhatnagar brings with him more than half a century of experience as a journalist, author and poet. He has worked for newspapers, radio and television. He has a vast background and long association with the media in India , and the United States , extensive travels, and meeting with top lawmakers and celebrities, opinion makers and ordinary people from all walks of life.

Yatindra Bhatnagar has written over 20 books on a wide variety of subjects, from international affairs to poetry to biography to travel. He has worked for daily, weekly and monthly newspapers. He has done over three thousand Radio and TV programs of talks, interviews and events reporting/commenting with political, cultural and social personalities, in India, the U.S., Korea, Egypt, Germany, U.K. etc. Regular analyst/commentator/interviewer on Radio and TV in India .. He has founded newspapers and magazines and nurtured them to respectable heights of excellence and wider acceptance.

Accomplishments

• Over six decades in Journalism - print, radio, TV, social, cultural, and educational organizations. Reported, written and lectured, both in English and Hindi, on a wide variety of subjects from religion and politics to poetry, international relations and education to sports, social and cultural activities to travel, arts to biographies, and more.
• Covered the proceedings of the Parliament of India for nearly two decades and had daily meetings/interaction with leaders.
• Traveled as guest of the governments of the United States , East and West Germany , Egypt , Australia , Hungary , Romania , Taiwan , South Korea , Mexico , Austria and Bhutan . Also visited Vietnam , Hong Kong , Singapore , Pakistan , Czechoslovakia , Bangladesh , Britain , Indonesia , Japan , Thailand , Turkey , France , Bulgaria , Spain , Nepal and Switzerland . Traveled extensively in India visiting major cities from Dwarka ( Gujarat ) in the West to Kohima (Nagaland) in the East, from Leh/Srinagar (Jammu & Kashmir) in the North to Kanyakumari in the South. In addition, have also visited Andaman-Nicobar Islands up to Indira Point (the southernmost tip of India ).
• Have closely seen history being made on numerous occasions, and also helped to make history on some.
• Received a special United Nations Fellowship while in India , to attend and report a U.N. conference in Mexico City.
• Over a hundred poems, many award-winning, featured in several collections.
• Author of over 20 books written both in English and Hindi, including: Bangladesh, Birth of a Nation; Mujib, The Architect of Bangladesh; Australiana, A Visit to Remember; Korean Experience; President Tito; Autumn Leaves (a collection of own poems); contributions in Discovery in Europe, Into the Sun, Great American Poetry Anthology, and The Golden Treasury of Great Poems; The Far East by Prof. Paul Clyde of Duke University (translated into Hindi).
• Contributing Editor of International Business Group of publications, and India Times. Active member of various religious, community, and cultural organizations.
• Self-starter, hard-worker and achiever - worked right through the mill to reach top positions in various daily, weekly, and monthly newspapers and magazines in India and the U.S.
• Strong motivator - helped Indore University , India , to set up the Department of Journalism, and taught there for a year.
• Leader and initiator: Arranged seminars, events, celebrations, fundraisers, and conferences. Regularly led and moderated discussions at various institutions, events and community centers on current affairs, social and literary topics, and poetry sessions.
• Honorary Deputy Sheriff of Tarrant County , Texas , appointed in 1965 on a visit to the State, as a guest.

Professional Experience

• FREELANCE WRITER/REPORTER FOR NEWSPAPERS/MAGAZINES IN CALIFORNIA and HOUSTON such as The ARGUS and The DAILY REVIEW (both mainstream dailies in California), India Herald, Indo-American News and Voice of Asia (weekly magazines in Houston). 1988 - current.
• INTERNATIONAL OPINION, web magazine on current affairs
  Chief Editor of www.internationalopinion.com. Sept. 2001-current.
• INDIA POST, weekly newspaper, California , Chicago , New York
  Chief Editor. Mar 1994 - Dec 1997
• THE INDIAN VOICE, First regular size newsweekly, Artesia , California . Chief Editor. 1991 - 1992
• INTERINGS and DIACCENT, Diamond Companies
  Publicist and Telemarketing Chief in Los Angeles . 1987 - 1988.
• DAINIK BHASKAR, daily newspaper, the largest Hindi newspaper chain in India Chief Editor. Mar 1983 - Dec 1985.
• DAINIK HINDUSTAN of The Hindustan Times Group, New Delhi , India . Chief of News Bureau. Wrote for all six papers of the Hindustan Times Group for over three decades. 1952 - 1983.
• TRAVIANA, magazine on travel, aviation, and adventure, New Delhi , India . Editorial Advisor, writer. 1974 - 1975.
• CHITRA KALA SANGAM, New Delhi , India
  Press/Events Organizer. Helped this social-cultural-art organization to grow from local to national level. 1955 - 1983.
• PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER, Philadelphia , PA. Guest Journalist, reporter/writer as part of multi-national journalist program. 1965.
• FORT WORTH STAR TELEGRAM, Fort Worth , Texas . Guest Journalist, reporter/writer as part of multi-national journalist program. 1965.

Education

• Citizen Police Academy course, Fremont , CA , 2004.
• Completed a special multi-national course for foreign journalists at Indiana University , Bloomington , Indiana . 1965-66. The project was sponsored by the U.S. State Department.
• Postgraduate Diploma in Journalism (JD) and University Graduate (BA), Panjab University , Chandigarh , India.
• Elementary/high school education in Indore , New Delhi and Bombay .
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ADDRESS: 6318 Richland Hills Drive , Katy , TX , 77494 .

Phone: 281 - 394 - 5244. E-Mail: yatasha@hotmail.com