Ajit Rai -
Ajit Rai is a well-known film and theatrical critic, cultural journalist and editor of the country. He has been working for almost all the important national newspapers-magazines and radio- television of the country for the last 35 years. Most of his nearly five thousand articles, reports, reports, reviews, interviews and cover stories published in Hindi so far have been considered a milestone in the cultural journalism of the country. Many of his reports have been questioned and debated in the Indian Parliament.
He has been the editor of Doordarshan's magazine 'Vishishantar and the National School of Drama magazine 'Rang Prasang. At present, Ajit Rai is probably the only Hindi journalist who can be called truly international and has also been invited to the Nobel Prize ceremony.
He is the first Hindi journalist to be named among the world's best film critics by the world's most prestigious Cannes Film Festival. He has been associated with the National School of Drama, New Delhi in various roles. Ajit Rai is one of the few Hindi journalists who has been nominated several times in the prestigious Selection Committee (Jury) of the International Film Festival of India (Goa). He attended the World Hindi Conference (New York, 2007) as a Hindi journalist. He started the Indian Film Festival for the first time in Moscow in 2014 and was made its first director. He has been a consultant for the Hindi Film Festival of Oslo (Norway) since 2012. He first started the Indian Film Festival in 2012 at Uppsala University. Sweden. Ajit Rai was regularly invited to deliver lectures at Hindi functions held in the House of Lords, the upper house of the British Parliament. In 2012, he was made co-director of the First Indian Film Festival held in Berlin (Germany). In September 2012, the President of Iran invited Ajit Rai to the New Horizons Film Festival Tehran as a special guest. He has received dozens of awards and honors for best film and drama critic for his writings on cinema and theatre. He has a first class MA in Journalism and Mass Communication (2007), and Psychology (1989). He has also done Diploma in Educational-Psychological Guidance and Counseling (NCERT, New Delhi; 1993) and Hindi Journalism (2006) and Certificate Course in Film Appreciation from FTII Pune.
Publications : Asghar Wajahat's famous play 'Jis Lahore Nahi Dekhya... Critical book, Voices Glowing in Silence (Interview). Fifteen books related to Hindi journalism, theater and cinema to be published soon. Presentation - Freelance writing.
Date of birth: 01 October 1967,
Email : ajitraieditor@gmail.com
