K G Suresh

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K G Suresh is one of the senior journalists working in New Delhi, the capital of the Republic of India. He is currently working as Chief Political Correspondent with the Press Trust of India. With a professional experience of 18 years, Suresh is the recipient of prestigious fellowships including the Prem Bhatia Fellowship for Research in Media by Young Journalists - 2000 and Action Aid International's Media For Change Fellowship-2005.

Suresh is considered an authority in right wing politics with his over decade long experience in covering the Hindu nationalist BJP and its right wing Sangh Parivar organizations. He has also been to trouble spots including Kabul, Kathmandu (in the aftermath of King Birendra's assassination) and Kashmir to cover counter-insurgency operations. He has covered the India visit of Pope John Paul II and US Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush. He is on the Guest Faculty of the prestigious Indian Institute of Mass Communications, University of Delhi and the Makhan Lal Chaturvedi National University of Journalism. Suresh is a regular speaker at major national and international conferences and had delivered the keynote address on human rights at the LAWASIA International Conference in New Delhi.

He had earlier served PTI, India's premier news agency, in different capacities including as Special Correspondent, Political Correspondent, Deputy Chief Reporter and Chief Crime Reporter.