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December 1-15 2006


 

December 1-15 2006

A whale of a time

ould the world really come to an end if two men got married? Would things really never be the same if two women lived happily together without ever needing a man? These are some questions on Paras Tomar's blog. At 22, and one of the youngest anchors on CNN-IBN, he has never been a fan of censorship. He hates the idea and says it's hard being young. How did he get into CNN-IBN and get to become an anchor?

Tomar was covering Page 3 in Bombay Times when in 2005, Rajiv Masand from CNN-IBN called him. "When I first joined there was a show called Showtime India on CNBC on the South Asia World network (which is CNBC in Europe). We launched it in December. For the first three months I was only reporting and then the bosses called and said 'let's get him to anchor'. That's how it began,'' he recalls. At present, Tomar anchors E-tonight and Minus Thirty on CNN-IBN and livens up the channel with his wisecracks. ... more


 

   
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