Talk:Narasimhan Ram
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[edit] from the hindu wiki article. this is to be merged
The current editor-in-chief of The Hindu, N. Ram, is an alumnus of the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism and a former first class cricketer. A Padma Bhushan awardee, Ram has achieved several accolades such as, Asian Investigative Journalist of the Year (1990) Award conferred by the Press Foundation of Asia at the "One Asia Assembly", Manila, 1990 for "the courage and diligence which inspired him and his newspaper to continue searching for the truth in the now famous Bofors Case, the disciplined application of his journalistic idealism and the impact of his revelations on the Indian political scene"; B.D. Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism, 1989, shared with Chitra Subramaniam; National Citizen’s Award, 1995, New Delhi (with the citation reading "for his brave and fearless writings in the interest of the nation") and XLRI’s First JRD Tata Award for Business Ethics, awarded at this management institute’s 46th Annual Convocation at Jamshedpur on March 23, 2002 for "following rigorously the canons of journalism and ethics" and making "this ethics part of a corporate philosophy"[1].Prior to his present position he was Associate Editor until 1991 and then Editor of Frontline and Sportstar between 1991 and 2003. As a student activist, he was the vice-president of the Students Federation of India (SFI) [2], (the students's wing of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) at the time of its formation in 1970. In September 2000, he wrote a cover story in Frontline, terming as "separatist, revanchist and backward-looking agenda", the 14th Dalai Lama's demand for recognition of Tibet's status by China[3]though he does not mention any human rights violations committed by Chinese government in Tibet. He was also part of the BJP watch group which termed the rule at the centre in the late 1990's "fascist"[4].
What about his run in with Jaylalitha?
