00:00In a remarkable milestone, the India Today Group celebrated turning 50 and with a grand celebration at the India Today MediaPlex.
00:07Listen in to Editor-in-Chief Arun Puri's message on the journey from 1975 to 2025 and what the next 50 years of the ITG growth story will be.
00:16It's a golden jubilee for the gold standard of journalism.
00:35As the India Today Group turned 50, it was a grand celebration at the India Today MediaPlex.
00:41As founder and Editor-in-Chief Arun Puri was joined by his India Today family to mark the milestone.
00:53To kick off celebrations, an exhibition of the 50 best India Today magazine covers from the archives were handpicked, including images of 12 of India's Prime Ministers.
01:11These magazine covers came alive using AI and were on display at the India Today MediaPlex.
01:33The 50 best India Today magazine covers the 50 best India's Prime Ministers.
02:03Puri reflected upon the journey of the India Today group from 1975 to 2025.
02:11It was followed by a memorable evening painted red and black.
02:19Underscoring what it takes to be an institution of integrity.
02:23Integrity. Curiosity. Fairness. Courage. And a commitment to quality.
02:36The belief that journalism is a public trust and not a personal platform.
02:42I've always believed that an institution becomes what its people choose to make of it.
02:48Be a permanent student. Ask questions. Listen. Admit what you do not know.
02:55Learn from anyone who can teach you something. But friends, curiosity has no age.
03:02In his address, Mr Puri also emphasised what he considers the most important tenet of industry leadership.
03:13Culture is what tells you how to act when nobody is watching.
03:18Culture is what makes you choose the harder right over the easier wrong.
03:24Culture is what keeps an institution consistent when the world is inconsistent.
03:32Kalipuri highlighted what it takes to redefine the benchmark year after year.
03:38What is the hallmark of this DNA that makes us the gold standard?
03:44Two words, I think, describe it best.
03:48Hunger and jannoon.
03:51Hunger.
03:53Hunger to do more.
03:55We are hungry for the right things.
03:58The second one, jannoon.
04:01Passion.
04:02Where you are consumed by a story.
04:05That's why we have always invested in content.
04:09Otherwise, from one magazine with 31 people working in a 300 square foot cubby hole,
04:17how do you go to 2,531 people working in 20 offices?
04:26It doesn't just happen.
04:28From producing a 36-page magazine in print fortnightly
04:33to creating 6,000 pieces of multimedia content in different platforms in one day.
04:41The most satisfying comment I have heard through this entire process
04:47that putting the journey together was over and over again
04:51when we interviewed people or met them or got messages for our 50-year commemoration.
04:56It was, it has always been my dream to work at the India Today group.
05:02And now I'm working here.
05:05When people dream, they dream of being us.
05:10But here we are, you, me, all of us, living our very best dream.
05:2350 years, the mission remains the same.
05:27To inform, to question.
05:30And to tell India's story without fear or favour.
05:34As India today turns 50, it celebrates not just an anniversary,
05:42but a legacy of journalism that continues to evolve with India.
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