Renowned Indian
Journalists: brief
Rasipuram Krishnaswami Iyer Laxman was an Indian cartoonist, illustrator, and
humorist. He was best known for his creation The Common Man and for his daily
cartoon strip, "You Said It" in The Times of India, which started in
1951.
Palagummi Sainath (born 1957) is an Indian journalist and photojournalist who focuses on social problems, rural affairs, poverty and the aftermath of globalization in India. He was the Rural Affairs Editor at The Hindu before resigning in 2014, and the website India Together has been archiving some of his work in The Hindu daily.He is also the founding editor of the People's Archive of Rural India.
. His book Everybody Loves a Good Drought equates drought with 'teesra phasal' or third crop that is enjoyed by the machinery that finds compensation cheaper than development.
Bal Keshav Thackeray was an Indian politician who founded the Shiv
Sena, a right-wing Marathi ethnocentric party active mainly in the western
state of Maharashtra.
Kuldip Nayar is a veteran Indian journalist, syndicated columnist, human right
activist and author, noted for his long career as a left-wing political
commentator.
Madhav Vittal Kamath (7 September 1921 – 9 October 2014) was an Indian journalist and broadcasting executive, and the chairman of Prasar Bharati. He worked as the editor of The Sunday Times for two years from 1967 to 1969, and as Washington correspondent for The Times of India from 1969 to 1978. He also served as editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India.
Madhav Vittal Kamath (7 September 1921 – 9 October 2014) was an Indian journalist and broadcasting executive, and the chairman of Prasar Bharati. He worked as the editor of The Sunday Times for two years from 1967 to 1969, and as Washington correspondent for The Times of India from 1969 to 1978. He also served as editor of The Illustrated Weekly of India.
Aroon Purie is an Indian businessman who is the founder-publisher and
editor-in-chief of India Today and the chief executive of the India Today
Group.
Prabhu Chawla born in Lahore, Punjab, British India in 1946. He is allumni
of Deshbandhu college University of Delhi . He is the Editorial Director of The
New Indian Express, a Chennai-based newspaper in India.
Saeed Naqvi is senior Indian journalist, television commentator,
interviewer. He has interviewed world leaders and personalities in India and
abroad, which appear in newspapers, magazines and on national channels.
Saeed Naqvi started his
journalist career as Staff Reporter with The
Statesman, Delhi in
1964, later he became editor of the Sunday Magazine. During this period,
in spring of '68, when The
Beatles visited
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's ashram in Rishikesh, he famously sneaked in along with
fellow photographer, Raghu
Rai and they not
only filed new reports, but also took photographs inside. His important books
are:
·
The
Last Brahmin Prime Minister? Har-Anand Publications, 1996.
Dibang (दिबांग in Hindi), a senior journalist and member of a debate panel with the news channel ABP News, is rated among the best Hindi anchors in the industry today.[1] He is also hosting Prime Time show "Jana Mana" on ABP News.
Ravish Kumar (born 5 December 1974) is an Indian TV anchor,[2] writer and journalist who covers topics pertaining to Indian politics and society.[3]He is the senior executive editor at NDTV India,[4] the Hindi news channel of the NDTV news network and hosts a number of programmes including the channel's flagship weekday show Prime Time, Hum Log[5] and Ravish Ki Report.[6]
Rajdeep Sardesai (born
24 May 1965) is an Indian
news anchor and author. Sardesai
is currently a consulting editor at the India
Today group and will be doing a marquee show for Headlines Today. He was
the Editor-in-Chief of IBN18 Network, that includes CNN-IBN, IBN7 and
IBN-Lokmat from where he left in July 2014.
An important book he authored is Chunav
Jisne Bharat Ko Badal Diya (Hindi Edition: 2014)
Sagarika Ghose is an Indian journalist, news anchor and
author. She has been a journalist since 1991 and has worked at The Times Of
India, Outlook and The Indian Express. She was the deputy editor and a prime
time anchor on the news network CNN-IBN.
Arnab Goswami is an Indian journalist who is the editor-in-chief and a
news anchor of the Indian news channel Times Now and ET Now. The Newshour, a
live debate anchored by him, is aired at 9 pm weekdays on Times Now.
Barkha Dutt is an Indian television journalist and columnist. She works
as a consulting editor with NDTV. Dutt gained prominence for her reportage of
the Kargil War.
Mobashar Jawad "M.J." Akbar is the Minister of State for External Affairs,
and a Member of Parliamentwhich is also known as Upper House from Madhaya
Pradesh.He was inducted into the Union Council of Ministers by PM Narendra Modi
on 5th July, 2016. His important books are: Nehru: the Making of India (1990)
Riot After Riot (1991) Kashmir: Behind the Vale (1991) India: The Siege within
- Challenges to a Nation's Unity (1996) The Shade of Swords: Jihad and the
Conflict between Islam and Christianity (2003) Byline (2004) Blood Brothers - A
Family Saga (2006) Have Pen, Will Travel. Tinderbox: The Past and Future of Pakistan(2011).
Raghu Rai (born 1942) is an Indian photographer
and photojournalist. He was a protégé of ... From 1982 until 1992, Rai was the
director of photography for India Today. ...
the chemical disaster at Bhopal in 1984, which he covered as a journalist with India Today
in 1984, and on its ongoing effects on the lives of gas victims.
Mario Miranda was
born on 2nd May 1926. His cartoons famously depict vignettes of Goan village
life. He died on 11th December 2011 in his ancestral house in Loutolim, Goa.
Source: collected from Wikipedia.
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