Balbir Punj

Balbir Punj is a journalist and columnist from India who has written on events in Hindi-English newspapers and magazines since the early 1990s. He specializes in writing about social, economic, and political issues.

Punj started his career in journalism for the publication Motherland in 1971. He worked for Financial Express from 1974 to 1996. He then worked for The Observer of Business and Politics (a business daily published from Delhi and Mumbai) as an Executive Editor from May 1996 to March 2000. He was also chairman of the IIMC, a Southeast Asian media training organization, for two years until March 2000. Punj also participated in the Delhi Journalists Association, where he served as President for two consecutive terms between 1989 and 1991. In 1993–95, Punj worked as the General Secretary of the National Union of Journalists (NUJ). He was chairman of the National Commission for Youth. He was also a member of the Delhi Finance Commission established by the then Delhi Government in 1996–97. On May 18, 2022, Balbir Punj was conferred the Lifelong Devrishi Narad Samman Award.