Mark Manuel

Mark Manuel, someone who has interviewed almost every role model this country has to offer as of now. Mark Manuel is a respected Mumbai editor, writer and columnist with over three decades of journalism in leading publications including the Free Press Journal, Times, Dainik Bhaskar, Mid-Day, and Afternoon. He is widely known for his brilliantly penned interviews. They get carried by several leading media houses including the Hindustan Times, Huffington Post, BBC and Network 18. He has interviewed almost every famous person in the country or passing through, from Mother Teresa to Muhammad Ali, His first book is just out. It’s titled Moryaa Re! and is a crime thriller that is perhaps the country’s first police procedural. He began his career covering crime and in a tribute to his experience and knowledge of this beat, several distinguished officers of the Mumbai Police and its Crime Branch collaborated with him to make this book possible. In a statement of friendship for Mark Manuel and admiration for his work, Amitabh Bachchan wrote the foreward. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.