Ravish Kumar
Profession: Journalist, TV Anchor, Author
Brother of Ravish Kumar
Brajesh Kumar Pandey (Politician)
Father of Ravish Kumar
Baliram Pandey
Wife/Spouse of Ravish Kumar
Nayana Dasgupta (History Teacher)
Affairs/Girlfriends of Ravish Kumar
Nayana Dasgupta (History Teacher)
Favourite Actor of Ravish Kumar
Amitabh Bachchan
Favourite Singer(s) of Ravish Kumar
Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar, Mukesh, Mohammed Aziz
Favourite Teacher of Ravish Kumar
Late Parthasarathi Gupta (History Professor of Delhi University)
Awards, Honours, Achievements of Ravish Kumar
2010: Ganesh Sankar Vidyarthi Award
2013: Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for the Journalist of The Year
2014: Indian News Television Award for the best news anchor in Hindi
2016: The Indian Express included him in the 100 most influential Indians list. The same year, he was named the best journalist of the year by Mumbai Press Club
2017: Honoured with the first Kuldip Nayar journalism award for his contribution to the field of journalism
2019: Awarded Ramon Magsaysay Award for 'harnessing journalism to give voice to the voiceless."
Controversies of Ravish Kumar
In 2017, his brother, Brajesh Kumar Pandey was booked under the POSCO (Protection Of Children From Sexual Offences) Act for being involved in a sex-racket for which Ravish Kumar was criticized by a faction of society for not covering the incident in his news shows.
He also attracted a controversy for implicitly criticizing Arnab Goswami, a popular English TV Anchor.
Ravish Kumar has revealed that he has been receiving death threats and abusive phone calls since the arrival of the Narendra Modi Government at the centre in 2014. The constant trolling led to Ravish Kumar quitting Twitter in August 2015.
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