# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/karan-thapar
# Generated: 2026-08-13T07:31:35.833Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/karan-thapar"
name: "Karan Thapar"
slug: "karan-thapar"
description: "Karan Thapar is an Indian journalist, news presenter and interviewer working with The Wire. Thapar was associated with CNN-IBN and hosted The Devil's Advocate and The Last Word. Some of the celebrities he has interviewed included Jyoti Basu, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, Mamata Banerjee, J. Jayalalithaa, Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Narendra Modi and Shah Rukh Khan. He was also associated with India Today, hosted the shows To the Point and Nothing But The Truth and is doing an exclusive series of Interviews with The Wire on his show the Interview with Karan Thapar."
tagline: "Journalist from India"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Karan_Thapar_speaking_at_The_Doon_School%2C_India.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1955-11-05"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             5.856432125088842
  historical:           8.640948
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump