Narasimhan Ram (born May 4, 1945) is an Indian journalist. He has been the Editor-in-chief of The Hindu since June 27, 2003. Ram also heads the other publications of The Hindu Group such as Frontline, The Hindu Business Line and Sportstar, and has been awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India.

Ram graduated from Madras Christian 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.^[1]

Beginning his career in The Hindu as an Associate Editor in 1977, Ram was made the Washington Correspondent in 1980. His association with Frontline dates back to 1984, when the magazine was started.^[2] As an atypical example for a Tamil brahmin, Ram enthused himself with Communist ideology and his passion for Communist policies was reflected in his writings that hardly criticised the non-democratic regime of China. With the fall of mainstream communism in Soviet Union, Ram transformed himself as a campaigner for human rights in 1990s.

Prior to his current position as the editor in chief of the Hindu daily, Ram had served as the Editor of Frontline magazine and Sportstar between 1991 and 2003.

Ram's contribution to journalism has been recognized by a number of awards. These include the 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, 2003. ^[3] However, one of Ram's weaknesses deserves mention; this relates to his penchant for muffling his criticism against power-holding politicians (whether this be Rajiv Gandhi or the non-democratic regimes in China, Sri Lanka and Pakistan) in the wider business interests to his publishing house. Another weakness of Ram, is the delusion of grandeur he holds as a power-broker in national and regional politics.

Ram's first wife Susan was an Irish woman who was for many years in charge of Oxford University press publications in India. As a husband and wife team, both published the first volume of a biography on R.K.Narayan, the eminent Indian writer. Their daughter Vidya Ram is a budding journalist. After divorcing from Susan, Ram had Mariam Chandy, a Kerala Christian.^[4]

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