# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aroon-purie
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:44:17.900Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aroon-purie"
name: "Aroon Purie"
slug: "aroon-purie"
description: "Aroon Purie is the founder-publisher and editor-in-chief of India Today, and former chief executive of the India Today Group. He is the managing director of Thomson Press (India) Limited and the chairman and managing director of TV Today. He is a recipient of the Padma Bhushan award. He was also the editor-in-chief of Reader's Digest India. In October 2017, he passed control of the India Today Group to his daughter, Kalli Purie."
tagline: "Indian magazine editor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/AROON_PURIE.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1944"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  historical:           7.318342666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     55.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "aroonpurie"
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    title: "ارون پوری"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump