Shri. Kiran Thakur

Founder & Chairman, Lokmanya Society, Advisory Editor, Tarun Bharat, Belgaum

Shri Kiran Dhondopant (Alias Baburao) Thakur is the Chairman – ‘Lokmanya Multipurpose Cooperative Society Ltd’ and ‘Tarun Bharat Trust’. He was born in Belgaum on 7th April 1952. He spearheads many social, cultural and educational activities in and around Belgaum. A science graduate, his tilt for journalism started at a young age, for which he completed his Diploma in Journalism from Rajendra Prasad College of Mass Communications, Mumbai. He started his Journalistic career as a Sports Reporter in 1968 with his father‘s newspaper ―Tarun Bharat. He took over as the Editor in 1979, which gave Tarun Bharat the needed modernization.