Bio
Venkat Narayan is a senior Indian journalist, author and television commentator with more than five decades of experience in journalism and international affairs.
A Journalism gold medallist from Osmania University, Hyderabad (1967), he began his journalistic career with The Times of India in Ahmedabad in 1968. He was a Summer Scholar at The Sunday Times of London (1975) and Guest Writer at The Boston Globe (1978). He subsequently served as Executive Editor and Senior Editor of India Today (1979–84), and later as South Asia Bureau Chief of ITN, London, and Network Seven, Australia.
Narayan has interviewed nine of India’s 13 Prime Ministers and has reported extensively on Indian politics, governance, diplomacy and South Asian affairs. He writes regularly for leading publications, including The Island of Sri Lanka and HT Insight, and appears on television as a commentator on current affairs.
He is the author of NTR: A Biography (1983) and Chandrababu Naidu: The Relentless Reformer, an authorised biography of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu.
He is Chairman of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of South Asia–International Association of Press Clubs (FCC-IAPC) Global Forum.
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