Mr Amar Chandel took voluntary retirement in 2011 from the post of Associate Editor of The Tribune, one of India ’s oldest and biggest newspapers published from Chandigarh. The 127-year-old newspaper is also published from New Delhi , Bathinda and Jalandhar with a daily circulation of over 400,000. He remained on the editorial staff of this premier daily as a journalist for more than three decades.

In these years, he gained experience in all streams of journalism: editing, reporting and the running of the newspaper. He holds MA, B.Sc, BJ, LL.B degrees. Mr Amar Chandel’s principal responsibility, as a journalist, was to write editorials and he had over 3,000 editorials on international, national and regional subjects to his credit. These were besides the numerous signed articles he wrote regularly. He was also Editor of the Magazine Sections of The Tribune.

He wrote extensively on such subjects as health, environment, science, law, wildlife, social issues, sports, adventure and tourism. Political satire was his forte and he penned middles on a regular basis. Legendary journalist, author and Editor Khushwant Singh once commented about one of his pieces: “I wish I had written that”.

He also wrote film reviews for the newspaper for more than a decade, besides covering cricket Tests and one-day internationals. He edited the weekly Science and Technology page, Oped Health and Behaviour pages of The Tribune for many years. Many of his writings have been reproduced in various anthologies and compilations.

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