Ravish Kumar Age, Caste, Wife, Children, Family, Biography & Current Status

Ravish Kumar is an Indian Journalist, Author and a media personality & the current senior executive ex-Former Editor of NDTV India. He was born on 5th December, 1974 in Jitwarpur village near Areraj in East Champaran, Motihari Bihar. His father – His father’s name is Baliram Pandey and his sister’s name is Nita Kumar Pandey

Young Ravish was a bookish and newspaperish kind of child and journalism found its way into his life naturally. Having received his education through the medium of English at St. Michael’s Convent School, Patna, he later on studied at Loyola High School, Patna (Bihar), contributing his mite to debates as well as other co-curricular activities.

However, Ravish Kumar did not give up his dreams and continued to study and get himself educated and is a post graduate in Journalism from Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi. He went on to become one of the greatest journalist of India due to his stint with the social and political issues.

Ravish Kumar was born on December 5, 1974 in a village of Jitwarpur near Areraj in district of East Champaran in Bihar India.
He had a basic family with two children and he grew up in this kind of family.
He developed love for reading and writing at a tender age reading books and newspapers and had the passion for joining journalism.
This young man was born in Patna Bihar where he joined Loyola High School to complete his secondary education he enjoyed participating in debates and other activities.
He had to experience the social and political turmoil and disturbance which was a routine incidence in Bihar of 1980s and 1990s.
He continued his studies and completed his post-graduate degree in Journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication ,New Delhi.

Education of Ravish Kumar

Shri Ravish Kumar is very educated man who received his education at the most prestigious institutions in India.
Ravish Kumar did his schooling from Loyola High School at Patna in Bihar.
He holds a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in History and received the same from Deshbandhu College, University of Delhi.
He further enhanced his education and after the completion of his graduation he did a post graduate diploma in Hindi Journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi in 1995-96.
He also received a master’s degree in Hindi Literature by the University of Delhi at a later time.
Ravish Kumar journalism education he received from IIMC greatly helped him in the shaping his journalism career. From some of the best professionals in the media industries, he was able to discover how the news writing/reporting/broadcasting had to be done. In his entire journalistic career, he has well understood the socio-political dynamics of India and is reckoned as one of the most cerebral journalists of India.

Career of Ravish Kumar/ Ravish Kumar Journalism Journey

Ravish Kumar entered the journalism field in the year 1996 and he wrote very famous articles to the newspapers . He started as a field reporter with ‘NDTV India’ in 1998 after which he was promoted as the Senior Executive Editor of the same channel.
Ravish Kumar started his journey with the New Delhi Television Limited or NDTV in 2005. Prior to his association with NDTV he worked with several medium and large Hindi newspapers including Navbharat Times and Dainik Bhaskar After doing his schooling he joined journalism mid-nineties and has hands on experience in reporting writing and editing. Ravish left job of sorting letters for five months and then he joined the MPhil course. However he wavered between distinguishing between Letters and the intention of attending classes with prominent professors. Eventually he left MPhil. In an interview, Ravish said that Shibani Sharma helped me get the job of translator in NDTV. Ravish Kumar’s show are Hum Log, Ravish Ki Report, Desh Ki Baat and Prime Time. Ravish Kumar specializes in following issues that are common with the ordinary citizens of the country.

Ravish started with sorting letters in NDTV

In 2005 he got an offer from NDTV that is renowned news and television channel of India. At first, he joined as the field reporter and reporting the events of politics, social problems, and issues concerning today’s society among others. He was soon promoted and became a news anchor this is because he adopted a special tendency of presenting news and analysis. He work in NDTV it was started in the year 1996. The human resource section of NDTV also reveals that Mr. Ravish Kumar was not an anchor of the network since he joined it. Previously he was employed in ndtv where he was sorting letters. In many interviews he has stated that he came to understand the passion of the fans while sifting through the mails.

Ravish Kumar has received the 'Ramon Magsaysay' award, which is considered as Asia's Nobel for his journalism. In 2016, The Indian Express included him in its list of '100 Most Influential Indians'.

This work has been well appreciated at NDTV and Ravish Kumar has been honored with many awards in journalism including the prestigious Ramon Magsaysay Award, considered as Asia’s version of Nobel Prize for journalism. He is especially popular for his ability to dissect social and political controversies as well as fair journalism. Today he is one of the most established journalist of India and his live show ‘Prime Time with Ravish Kumar’ gets viewed by millions of people daily.

Unfortunately, Kumar has practiced journalism in his career and reported in different field as politics, social problems, and cultural activities. He has covered the issues such as Gujarat riots in 2002, Mumbai terror attacks of 2008 and the protests associated with the 2012 Delhi gang rape.

Some of the renowned writers are: Ravish Kumar who hosts a show ‘Prime Time with Ravish’ on NDTV India. ”Prime Time” has had the reputation of vivid and caustic political reporting and has collected several awards for its work. Ravish Kumarhas been equally involved with a show of NDTV India such as “Ravish Ki Report”, “Hum Log” among others.

Ravish Kumar Resignation from NDTV

Ravish Kumar said after resigning from NDTV – I am that bird, whose nest someone else flew awayRavish Kumar decided to resign after Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy had resigned from the post of directors of RRPR Holding Private Limited. On the same day, the NDTV owner and founder, Prannoy Roy along with his wife Radhika Roy resigned from the board of directors of RRPR Holding Private Limited (RRPRH). NDTV was started in the year 1988 by Prannoy Roy and Radhika Roy. Before the commissions of NDTV, Pranav Roy was doing a show ‘The World This Week’ on Doordarshan. That is why in 1998 he embarked on opening the first 24-hour news channel in association with Star News.

Ravish Kumar Marriage (Ravish Kumar Wife Name)

In the year, 1999 Ravish Kumar tied the knot with Nayana Dasgupta. Nayana Dasgupta is an academician; she is an associate professor in history at the Lady Shri Ram College for Women which is under Delhi University. They have a daughter named Anshika, and in a few years here and there they all read and hence it was really funny for the audience. First of all, Ravish Kumar has always been very secretive about his personal life and his personal life does not interferes with his professional life.
There is some more information about him such as Shri Ravish Kumar is a married man and he is married to Nayana Dasgupta.
Ravish Kumar and Nayana Dasgupta are also husband and wife and the couple has been together for two decades now after tying the knot in 1999.
Ravish Kumar has written about his relationship with Nayana in his book "The Free Voice: Democracy, Culture and the Nation ‘Democracy cannot exist without culture or without a nation’.
The two love birds are very discrete about their affairs and infrequent post information about their affair on social media.

Ravish Kumar Awards and Achievements

2013- Ramon Magsaysay Award
2013; Reprint, 2017- Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award
2014- Indian News Television Award of best news anchor of Hindi news channel
2017- Kuldip Nayar Award for Journalism, Gauri Lankesh Journalsim Award
2010- The winner of this award named as Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Award in the field of Hindi Journalism and Creative Literature.
2016- Journalist of the year by Mumbai Press Club
Winner of the Ramnath Goenka Awards for excellence in Journalism for political and government reporting in 2013, 2017,National Award for Special Mention in Investigative Journalism in 2019.
The Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2019 for transforming journalism as a tool into empower the voiceless.
The given one is Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi Award for Hindi journalism which was received in the year 2010.
Times Now-IAP, Indian Political Journalism (2016), Journalist of the Year Platinum Award (2015), Red Ink Award for ‘Journalist of the year’ Mumbai Press Club (2017).

Ravish Kumar Social Media Profile

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/RavishKaPage
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ravishndtv
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ravishndtv/
YouTube : ravishkumarofficial

Books Written by Shri Ravish Kumar

The Free Voice: On Democracy, Culture and the Nation
Bolna Hi Hai : Loktantra, Sanskriti Aur Rashtra Ke Bare Mein
Ishq Mein Shahar Hona
Dekhate Rahiye
Ravishpanti
A City Happens In Love

Namskar ! Main Ravish Kumar

Ravish Kumar Age Caste Wife Children Family Biography

Question : What is Ravish Kumar’s nationality?
Answer: The wife of Mr. Ravish Kumar is Nayana Dasgupta she comes from up Bengal by birth.

Question: To what name was Ravish Kumar given at birth?

Answer: Ravish Kumar Pandey

Question: For the readers who are perhaps unfamiliar with the character; Ravish Kumar is a central character in the film. What is his background/caste? As to the political affiliation he belongs to, which political party is he affiliated to?
Answer: Mr. Ravish Kumar is one of the most famous Journalist of India and world who practice unbiased and entirely honest journalism. He never stated about hsi caste because he does not have an intention to practice casteism. Oh by the way he is a Brahmin; actually he belongs to upper caste. He is politically non-aligned but skeptical of every government which is the best way to be in a democracy.

Question: For what reason to call Ravish Kumar an anti-BJP?
Answer: He is not anti BJP or anti Congress, he just does his job and brings up more and more issues concerning the society. Because at present there is a BJP government, that’s why they show the flaws and corruption of the governments from time to time. For this reason, most people who support BJP have also labeled him as anti BJP.

Ravish Kumar salary

At present, Mr. Ravish Kumar only has a channel on YouTube and he only earns the money from YouTube channel.

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