By David Sabapathy – TNS
COLOMBO: Hindu editor Ram was awarded the Best Journalist of Asia by the Sri Lanka Mass Media Society, a Sri Lankan government-sponsored group to promote excellence in the media.
This is the second award to Mr. Ram by the ruling regime in Sri Lanka. In 2005, Ram received the Sri Lanka Ratna award for his 'exceptionally outstanding and most distinguished service to Sri Lanka in particular and/or humanity in general,' from the then president of Sri Lanka.
His latest Sri Lankan award came on heals of anti Hindu sentiments bursting into anti-media violence by the Tamil nationalist in Tamil Nadu. His long standing anti Tamil and Pro Sri Lanka views are well documented, says an editor in Colombo.
"Camouflaged in the name of Indian national interest, the intellectual venom, sectarian interests, dynastic interests and personal biases sadly making The Hindu into a pro-Sinhala and anti-Tamil media have to be countered socially, culturally and politically on a superior intellectual plane by bringing out public awakening locally and globally," he said.
“These unruly and illegal acts were an expression of intolerance of the newspaper’s criticism of pro-LTTE and pro-Eelam chauvinism in the Tamil Nadu political arena. In our considered editorial assessment, these chauvinistic, pro-separatist tendencies are deeply inimical to the interests of the Indian people,” Mr. Ram said in a statement recently.
He also considered being one of the main architects behind the doom 1983 Indo-Sri lanka accord.
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