(2008). He is associated with several councils, including the Council of Management, Audit Bureau of Circulations (Chairman, 2000–2001). He is on the Executive Committee of The Editors' Guild of India, Council of Management All India Management Association (Special Invitee). He was Chairman of the CII National Committee on Media (2001–2002). He is currently the chairman of FIPP (Federation of International Periodicals and Publications). Aroon Purie is a board member of the Global Editors Network since its creation in April 2011. In March 2022, he was bestowed with the ABLF lifetime achievement award for his contributions in the field of Journalism. Plagiarism A media watchdog, CounterMedia, found the opening two paragraphs—the first 250 words—of Purie's 400-word editorial of 18 October 2010 on the South Indian actor Rajnikanth to be identical to those in an article by Grady Hendrix published on 27 September 2010 in Slate, a US-based online magazine. Purie apologised for the mistake, suggesting that it had resulted from jet lag and claimed that "a couple of sentences lifted from another article were sent to me." In response, Hendrix wrote in Slate: "The jetlag apology wasn't meant to be taken as a serious statement, it was more of an old school attempt to make the problem go away with a silly, 'Whoops, I'm tired!' shrug." Hendrix also wrote that he considered it "a satisfactory closure to the matter." References Living people Indian accountants Indian magazine founders Indian magazine editors Alumni of the London School of Economics Indian publishers (people) Indian mass media owners Recipients of the Padma Bhushan in literature & education Delhi University alumni The Doon School alumni 1944 births India Today people 20th-century Indian businesspeople Indian male journalists 20th-century Indian journalists Writers from Lahore Businesspeople from Lahore Punjabi people