Printed Books

1. He co-authored with Shankar Raghuraman, “A Time of Coalitions: Divided We Stand”, published by Sage Publications in March 2004. (Raghuraman is at present a senior editor with The Times of India in New Delhi.) A substantially enlarged, revised, and updated version of the book entitled: “Divided We Stand: India in a Time of Coalitions” was published by Sage in November 2007.
2. He authored “Media Ethics: Truth, Fairness and Objectivity––Making and Breaking News” published by Oxford University Press first in March 2009; a revised and enlarged edition was published in January 2012. This is a textbook for aspiring journalists as well as existing media practitioners and contains many case studies from India. 
3. He is the lead author of Gas Wars: Crony Capitalism and the Ambanis with Subir Ghosh and Jyotirmoy Chaudhuri, published first in April 2014. The book has been self-published with Authors Upfront. The book tells the story of how influential corporate captains have benefitted from the way government policies and contracts are structured. Legal notices were served on the authors in April and May 2014 by lawyers acting on behalf of India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani and his younger brother Anil Ambani, and the companies they control, but the notices did not lead to court cases. The book has been published in Hindi and in Marathi (by Unique Academy, Pune). The related website is gaswars.paranjoy.in.
4. He co-authored with Subir Ghosh, “Sue the Messenger: How legal harassment by corporates is shackling reportage and undermining democracy in India,” which was published in May 2016. The book is a collection of “stories about stories” that ran afoul of corporate conglomerates resulting in strategic lawsuits against public participation or SLAPPs.
5. He authored with Shinzani Jain, “Thin Dividing Line: India, Mauritius and Global Illicit Financial Flows,” published by Penguin Random House in December 2017. The book (which originated as a documentary film available on YouTube) looks at how tax havens (notably Mauritius) are used to not just avoid the payment of taxes but also evade them, and how the dividing line between avoidance and evasion is thin to the point of being non-existent.
6. He co-authored with Sourya Majumder, “Loose Pages: Court Cases That Could Have Shaken India––Recalling the Birla-Sahara Papers and Kalikho Pul’s Suicide Note.” The book, which was self-published in November 2018, examines how the higher judiciary in India is complicit in the nexus between business and politics. The related website is loosepages.paranjoy.in.
7. He co-authored with Cyril Sam, “The Real Face of Facebook in India: How Social Media Have Become a Propaganda Weapon and Disseminator of Disinformation and Falsehood.”  The book, which was self-published in April 2019, takes a critical look at the working of the world’s largest social media organisation of its kind in India. The book has been published in Hindi and in Marathi (by Shabd Publication, Mumbai). In February 2021, a revised, enlarged version of the book was published in Bengali (by Guruchandali, Kolkata) with Arka Deb as its lead author. The related website is facebook.paranjoy.in.
8. He co-authored with Ravi Nair, “The Rafale Deal: Flying Lies? The role of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India’s biggest defence scandal,” in November 2023. The self-published book examines the controversies relating to the purchase of 36 fighter aircraft named Rafale by the government of India for the Indian Air Force from the French company Dassault Aviation. It critiques the decisions of the Supreme Court of India and a report of the Comptroller & Auditor General of India. A revised, paperback edition is under preparation as are the Hindi and Marathi translations of the book.   

He has contributed articles and chapters to the following books:

• Realizing Brand India edited by Sharif D Rangnekar (Rupa, 2005)
• India: The Political Economy of Reforms edited by Bibek Debroy and Rahul Mukherji (Bookwell, 2004))
• Journalism: Ethics and Responsibilities edited by Seema Mustafa (Har Anand, 2013)
• Strategising Energy: An Asian Perspective edited by Sreemati Ganguli (KW Publishers, 2014)
• The Indian Parliament: A Critical Appraisal edited by Sudha Pai and Avinash Kumar (Orient BlackSwan, 2014)
• The Indian Parliament: The Changing Landscape edited by B D Dua, M P Singh and Rekha Saxena (Manohar, 2014)
• Intellectuals, Philosophers, Women in India: Endangered Species, (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization [UNESCO], 2017)
• Re-forming India: The Nation Today, edited by Niraja Gopal Jayal and co-authored with A K Bhattacharya (Penguin Viking, 2019)
• Majoritarian State: How Hindu Nationalism is Changing India (Harper Collins, 2019), edited by Angana P Chatterji, Thomas Blom Hansen and Christophe Jaffrelot; the article he wrote for the book was co-authored with A K Bhattacharya 
• Citizenship: Context and Challenges (Centre for Development Policy and Practice, 2021), edited by Amir Ullah Khan and Riaz F Shaikh; the article he wrote for the book was co-authored with Sourodipto Sanyal 
• Media and Communication: A Handbook for Students, (Worldview Publications, 2023), edited by Guntasha K Tulsi and Nidhi Madan, the article he wrote for the book was co-authored with Sourodipto Sanyal 
• Has contributed articles for Manorama Yearbook (Malayala Manorama) for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023  

In collaboration with Authors Upfront, he has been the publisher of more than thirty (30) books in English and Hindi. These include:

1. A Million Missions: The Non-Profit Sector in India by Mathew Cherian (October 2014)
2. Calcutta Diary by Ashok Mitra (new edition published in December 2014) 
3. First Person Singular a collection of writings by Ashok Mitra (January 2016)
4. The Modi Myth by S Nihal Singh (October 2015)
5. Netaji: Living Dangerously by Kingshuk Nag (November 2015)
6. Idea of India Hard to Beat: Republic Resilient by Badri Raina (January 2016) 
7. Kashmir: A Noble Tryst in Tatters by Badri Raina (January 2017)
8. Encounters by Ramnika Gupta (July 2016)
9. Junkland Journeys: a novel by Ajith Pillai (July 2016)
10. The Story of Secularism: 15th-21st Centuries by Nalini Rajan (August 2016)
11. Chasing His Father’s Dreams: Inside Story of Odisha’s Longest Serving Chief Minister by Biswajit Mohanty (January 2017)
12. Edward John Thompson: British Liberalism and the Limits of Rapprochement by Shashi Raina (August 2016)
13. The Russian Revolution: Storms Across A Century (1917-2017) by Achala Moulik (June 2017)
14. Alternative Futures: India Unshackled, edited by Ashish Kothari and K Joy (November 2017)
15. Grand Illusion: The GSPC Disaster and the Gujarat Model by Subir Ghosh (December 2017), see related website:  https://subirghosh.in/grand-illusion
16. Flying Lies: Rafale––India’s Biggest Defence Scandal, a booklet by Ravi Nair published in nine languages: Bengali, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Tamil and Telugu (March 2019); see related website: https://flyinglies.paranjoy.in  
17. Corruption, CBI and I: More Than Memoirs of a Veteran Scam-Buster by Shantonu Sen with Sanjukta Basu (March 2020)
18. India’s Long Walk Home edited by Ishan Chauhan and Zenaida Cubbinz; the book is an anthology of fiction, non-fiction and poetry with contributions from Ruskin Bond, Arundhati Roy, Mridula Garg, Alok Rai, Nandita Haksar among others, with a foreword by Ashok Vajpeyi (December 2020)
19. India: The Wasted Years, a collection of essays that were originally written blogs by Avay Shukla, retired civil servant, with a preface by Wajahat Habibullah (July 2021)
20. Electoral Democracy: An Inquiry into the Fairness and Integrity of Elections in India, a collection of 17 essays by retired civil journalists, computer scientists, journalists, and activists, edited by M G Devasahayam (January 2022) 
21. The Queen of All Nations: A Brief View of Modern India for Young Indians (1857-2020) by Abhijit Sengupta (May 2023)
22. The Deputy Commissioner’s Dog and Other Colleagues: Memoirs of a Civil Servant by Avay Shukla. This collection of witty articles that were originally blogs is to be published in September 2023.
23. Disappearing Democracy: From a vantage perch in his hillside home in the idyllic ruralia of Himachal Pradesh, retired bureaucrat and writer Avay Shukla casts an unindulgent eye at the rapidly deteriorating socio-political climate of contemporary India. More seriously—as he says, far too many people, in the false security of their cocoons, are choosing to ignore what is happening around them or simply keeping quiet. But the future of the nation is in the hands of each and every citizen. In these pieces, Shukla’s engaging voice—ranging from wry to vexed to humorous—attempts to shake up the indifference and keep public opinion and conscience alive: during a period crucial to India’s history and destiny.
24. Bhima Koregaon: Challenging Caste: Challenging Caste reads the violence at Bhima Koregaon as a clash between two worldviews — one striving to flatten the social hierarchy, the other justifying and perpetuating it. The book deep dives into the songs and the play performed at the Elgar Parishad, controversially critiquing Brahminism and Prime Minister Narendra Modi; furnishes archival records in support of the claim that Govind Gopal, a Mahar, and not Bapuji Buva and Padmavati, a Maratha couple, was linked to the cremation of Chhatrapati Sambhaji; provides a rare glimpse of the world of hate over which Sambhaji Bhide presides; depicts the impact James Laine’s book had on Maharashtra’s anti-Brahmin consciousness; and recreates the scenes as Bhima Koregaon erupted on 1 January 2018.

25. Stout and Tender: Stout and Tender is Badri Raina’s third (and largest) anthology of poems in which the academic-poet, while musing and introspective, feels compelled to engage with glaring contemporary brutalities, anguish, sad and reviling ironies, the slow, stabbing death of humanism, and societal change inflicted by the digital age. 

    
     

Forthcoming books to be written/co-authored and published by him include one tentatively titled “The Incredible Rise and Fall of Gautam Adani”—see related website, https://adanifiles.paranjoy.in. Several other books are under preparation. 

Paranjoy is the only citizen of India who is currently challenging six defamation cases filed by lawyers representing corporate entities that are part of the Adani Group headed by Gautam Adani, once the world’s second-richest man. These cases are pending in different courts of law in Gujarat and Rajasthan. He is also the only journalist who is named in the 32,000-word-long report by the US-based short-selling firm, Hindenburg Research. The report, published on 24 January 2023, that led to a sharp decline in the prices of the shares of companies in the Adani Group, titled “How the World’s 3rd Richest Man is Pulling the Largest Con in Corporate History,” drew on his work. The Hindenburg Research report can be accessed from https://hindenburgresearch.com/adani/.