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Siddharth Varadarajan is the first editor of the leading newspaper daily, The Hindu who was the first professional editor in the history of the newspaper. All the earlier editors belonged to the family of the newspaper owners.
Some on the events on which he had reported about:
NATO war against Yugoslavia
Crisis in Kashmir
War in Iraq
Destruction of the Bamyan Buddhas
Education:
Studied Economics at the Londan School of Economics and Columbia University
Career:
Started his career as a professor at the New York University.
1995: Joined The Times of India
05: Joined The Hindu
2007: Visiting professor at the Graduate School of Journalism
2009: Poynter fellow at Yale University.
Achievements:
November 2005: Received the Elizabeth Neuffer Memorial Prize Silver Medal for Print Journalism for a series of articles
March 2006: Received the Bernardo O'Higgins Order by the President of Chile
July 2010: Received the Ramnath Goenka award
As an editor
Varadarajan edited the book The Making of a Tragedy, published by Penguin India which contains accounts of violence against Muslims in Gujarat
Member of
Indian Council of World Affairs
Board member of the inter-governmental B.P. Koirala India-Nepal Foundation
Member of the International Founding Committee of The Real News
Member of the editorial board of India Quarterly: A Journal of International Affairs