Today, NDTV journalist Ravish Kumar has won Asia’s Ramon Magsaysay Award 2019. Popularly known as ‘Asia’s Nobel Prize’.
The award committee tweeted a list of recipients for 2019, saying that
Kumar has been honoured for his “courage undaunted” while “harnessing journalism to give voice to the voiceless”.
These are the five recipients of Asia’s premier prize and highest honor, the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award.
- Ravish Kumar has won this award because of his news show, Prime Time, which “deals with real-life, under-reported problems of ordinary people”.
- Ravish Kumar, 44, who is a senior executive editor of NDTV India. He is one of the most influential TV journalists, the award citation said.
The name of four other winners of the Ramon Magsaysay Award 2019.
- Ko Swe Win from Myanmar.
- Angkhana Neelapaijit from Thailand.
- Raymundo Pujante Cayabyab from the Philippines.
- Kim Jong-Ki from South Korea.
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The award is given every year to individuals or organizations in Asia who manifest the same selfless service and transformative influence that ruled the life of the late and beloved Filipino leader.
List of other Indians winners of Ramon Magsaysay Award.
The name of other Indians who received this award (Ramon Magsaysay Awar) in the past, whose names are:
- Amitabha Chowdhury (1961)
- Boobli George Verghese (1975)
- Gour Kishore Ghosh (1981)
- Arun Shourie (1982)
- Palagummi Sainath (2007).
The four other winners of the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award are Ko Swe Win from Myanmar, Angkhana Neelapaijit from Thailand, Raymundo Pujante Cayabyab from Philippines and Kim Jong-Ki from South Korea.
Kashmir reporting
Mr. Kumar also touched upon the situation in Kashmir and the communication gag in the Valley following the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5.
“With the internet still shut down in Kashmir, most major news channels went along with the government’s stand, yet there are some who have dared to report from that shut down and faced the wrath of the army of trolls,” he said.
“While institutional journalism is facing a crisis, individual journalists are struggling to survive and question the authority,” Mr. Kumar said.
The noted journalist said a democracy can thrive only as long as its news and information are truthful.
“Sometimes resistance is not a matter of choice. Not all battles are fought for victory. Some are fought simply to tell the world that someone was there on the battle field. I accept this award on behalf of all those journalists,” Mr. Kumar said.
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