Narasimhan Ram (born May 4, 1945), is an Indian journalist, who is Editor-in-chief of The Hindu since June 27, 2003. Ram also heads the other publications of The Hindu Group, Frontline, The Hindu Business Line and Sportstar, and has been awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India. He is a known CPI(M) and marxist sympathiser. He had served as the vice president of the Students Federation of India (SFI), the student wing of CPI(M).

He graduated from Loyola College, Chennai in arts in 1964, went on to get a masters degree in arts from Presidency College, Chennai in 1966 and later an M.S. in comparative journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Beginning his career in The Hindu as an Associate Editor in 1977, he was made the Washington Correspondent in 1980. N Ram's association with Frontline, dates back to 1984, when the magazine was started.

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"; the 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] ^{[citation needed]}.

Prior to his present position he was Associate Editor until 1991 and then Editor of Frontline and Sportstar between 1991 and 2003. As a journalist & an editor he has bucked the trend by not giving in to Page-3 Culture & trivialising news. he was also a strong opponent of advertorials (the sale editorial space for the sake of advertsising)

Ram keep keen interest in cricket. He was a first class player himself. He had captained the Madras University team and also played for Tamil Nadu state in the Ranji Trophy tournament. He was a wicket keeper batsman.

Besides journalism, cricket and leftist ideologies, he is an ardent reader of literary works of various kinds. He had close friendship with many notable personalities including R.K.Narayan, E.M.S. Namboodiripad and Christiaan Barnard.

Vidya Ram,N.Ram's only child (with Susan Ram) topped the prestigious Columbia School of Journalism in early 2007. Ram's first wife Susan was an Irish woman who was for many years in charge of Oxford University press publications in India. After separating from Susan, he is now married to Mariam (Mariam Chandy), a Kerala Syrian Christian.[1]

Ram is said to be the mastermind behind 'India-China Association of Journalists', a Chinese embassy-sponsored organisation specialising in arranging pleasure trips for Indian journalists to Mainland China and occupied-Tibet [2]

Ramachandra Guha criticised the stand of N.Ram on Human Right and freedom of press in his column in the The Telegraph[3]

Mr. N. Ram continues to blatantly support all policies of the Chinese communist party regardless of whether they overlook human right or not. He keeps a close relationship with the Chinese Government and continues publishing propaganda materials for the party. His recent article on Tibet titled "Tibet - A relaity check" has been strongly criticized by the Tibetans themselves who knows their situation better than a writer who's suspected to be paid by the party. Thupten Samphel a Tibetan, has criticized and has pointed out all the flaws in the communist mouthpiece's article in a counter article titled "Mr N Ram and fellow travellers" [4]

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