Aroon Purie (Journalist) Age, Wife, Family, Children, Biography, Facts & More

Bio
Real Name	Aroon Purie
Profession	Journalist
Famous As	Former Editor-in-chief and chairman of India Today Group and Chairman of FIPP (International Federation of the Periodical Press)
Physical Stats & More
Eye Colour	Black
Hair Colour	Salt and Pepper
Personal Life
Date of Birth	1944
Age (as in 2018)	74 Years
Birth Place	Lahore, Punjab province, British India
Nationality	Indian
Hometown	Lahore, Punjab province, British India
School	The Doon School, Dehradun, Uttarakhand
College/University	London School of Economics
Educational Qualification	B.Sc in Economics from London School of Economics in 1965
Religion	Hinduism
Hobby	Reading
Major Awards/Honours	1988: Honoured with the B.D. Goenka award for his excellence in Journalism 1990: Awarded "Journalist of the Year" award by the Indian Federation of Small and Medium Newspapers 1993-1994: Won the G.K. Reddy Memorial Award for Outstanding Contribution to Journalism 2002: Hall of Fame Award from the Advertising Club of Kolkata
Controversy	He was in a controversy when Countermedia found that the first 250 words of Purie's 400-word editorial were found to be alike of the Grady Hendrix article on South Indian actor Rajnikanth. Later, he apologized for this.
Girls, Affairs and More
Marital Status	Married
Affairs/Girlfriends	Not Known
Family
Wife/Spouse	Rekha Purie
Children	Son- Ankoor Purie Daughters- Kalli Purie, Vice Chairperson at India Today Group Koel Purie, Actress
Parents	Father- Vidya Vilas Purie Mother- Name Not Known
Siblings	Brother- None Sister- Madhu Trehan
Money Factor
Net Worth (approx.)	₹64 crore

Some Lesser Known Facts About Aroon Purie

• Does Aroon Purie smoke?: Not Known

• Does Aroon Purie drink alcohol?: Not Known

• In 1970, he began with his journalism career as Production Controller at Thomson Press.

• His father V.V. Purie started the India Today magazine in 1975. He was the publisher and her sister, Madhu Trehan was the editor of the magazine, but after around 2 years, Madhu went abroad and handed over all the responsibilities to him.

• The magazine was launched at the time of Emergency declared by Indira Gandhi (Former Prime Minister of India).

• With India Today, Aroon tried to fill the information gap which existed amongst persons interested in India residing abroad.

• Soon, India Today became the most widely read magazine in India with over 11 million readers in 2006.

• After devoting 18 long successful years to journalism, he was honoured with B.D. Goenka Award in 1988.

• He became one of the most trending personalities in journalism and set the journalist style for the famous Hindi news channel- Aaj Tak and English news channel- Headlines Today.

• For his trailblazing work as a journalist, he was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2001, which is India’s third highest civilian award presented by theGovernment of India.

• In 2017, Aroon Purie made her daughter Kalli the Vice Chairperson of India Today Group.

• He has been working as chairman of FIPP (Federation of International Periodicals and Publications).

• Here’s a video in which Aroon talks about the success of the India Today Group and the strategies behind it: