A senior journalist Ravish Kumar won the Ramon Magsaysay Award this year. It is regarded as an Asian version of the Nobel Prize. He won it along with four others. The four other winners of the award are Ko Swe Win from Myanmar, Raymundo Pujante Cayabyab from the Philippines, Angkhana Neelapaijit from Thailand, and Kim Jong-Ki from South Korea.

The award citation by the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation said that Ravish Kumar is the senior executive editor at NDTV and is one of the most influential journalists in the country.