Ravish Kumar – People´s journalist in the cacophony of fake news and Bikau media

Ravish comes to his studio well prepared. He is an avid reader and when he reads anything, he reads it carefully. He had once called me on his ‘Prime Time’ show for an hour-long discussion on language diversity in India. That morning, some of my books were getting released in a Delhi auditorium. I noticed that he attended the entire programme; and when he left quietly, he left a number with a friend asking me to call. After my book release event was over, I did so. He then asked me to come to the NDTV studio for recording a conversation. I thought his questions would be based on what he had heard in the lectures that morning. I was pleasantly surprised to see in his hand two of my books. Our discussion made it amply clear that he had read both of the books quite deeply. And, these were not light reading. He must have spent at least a week pouring over them. This, I thought, was quite unusual. I have been interviewed by many other journalists. But, in very few cases, I have seen them come really so well prepared. Ravish was simply the very best among them.