Maalan V.Narayanan is a writer- journalist, who has  the distinction of  leading the premier  Tamil journals namely India Today(Tamil), Dinamani , Kumudam and Kungumam as its editor He is also a well respected writer and a popular broadcaster. He has travelled extensively and is currently the Editor of Sun News Channel.

Journalist:

As a Rotary Foundation Scholar, Maalan attended University of Florida, Gainesville, USA and earned his masters degree in journalism. He was a student good standing and was honoured with the Award for Academic Excellence in Advanced Editing, by the University He also created a prototype for an electronic newspaper for the University.

In India Maalan served as the editor of India Toady – Tamil Edition which he launched in Aug 1989 and also  editor of Dinamani (Tamil newspaper from the Indian Express Group) between 1993and 1995 and editor of Kumudam during 1995 to 1999.

  He is with the Sun Network since 1999 and launched its 24 hours bi- lingual news channel in May 2000.It is the first news channel in any regional language in India.

As a journalist, he has accompanied, Prime Minister Narasima Rao, Prime Minister Vajpayee, and President K.R.Narayanan, as a member of their media delegation during their official visits to various countries. He has covered land mark international events like Common wealth Heads of Governments Meet (at Durban South Africa), and Indo- European Union Summit (at Lisban,  Portugal).

He has lectured on contemporary political and literary issues at the University of  Melbourne, National University of Singapore, and University of Malaysia on  invitation This year on Sept .11 he addressed at the University of Melbourne on Kashmir.

He was a regular broadcaster for BBC Tamil service. He was presenting a newsletter, every month, for over 10 years.

  He has analysed election results live, for Doordarshan in 1991 and for Sun Television during 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2001 elections.

  Writer: 

  Maalan has 10 titles to his credit. He has also edited an  anthology of Tamil Short stories, in two volumes for Orient Longmans Ltd.

  His first short story collection, Kallukku Keezhum Pookal was a book of study on contemporary Tamil writing, for post graduate students of Madurai Kamaraj University for a period of 5 years. Another short story collection   Maarudal Varum, was awarded the best book of the year 1989 by the Vice Chancellor of Central University, Pondicherry. It later became a book of study at Kerala University for students of Tamil literature.

  His poems find a place in the Anthology of Tamil Poetry, by Sahitya Academy – (Academy of Letters) India. Prof.John Oliver Perry of Tuffts University, USA, has compiled his poems in an anthology of protest poetry, Voices Of Emergency.

  He was one of the two writers invited by the National Arts Council, Singapore to participate in the Writers week Celebrations as their guest of honour. This September he is invited by the National University of Singapore to lecture on Tamil writing across the world.

 His stories are translated into English and in other Indian languages and have appeared in the leading magazines like Illustrated Weekly Of India, India Today, Decan Herald, Vipula and Matrubhoomi. His stories in translation find a place in the Anthology of  Morden Tamil Stories published by Writers Workshop, Calcutta.      

  Academic activity:

  He has served  in the Senate of the Manonmaniam Sundaranar University,  Advisory Committee National Book Trust, New Delhi , Board of Studies for Journalism at University of Madras  and Madurai Kamaraj University.

  He  has also served in the Advisory Committee of National Book Trust, Advisory Committee of the Tamilnadu government to revamp the public libraries in Tamilnadu.

  Travel:

He has travelled extensively, in India and abroad. He has visited, United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Philippines, Thailand, Japan, Australia, Portugal, Singapore, Malaysia, South Africa, and Italy on invitations.  

For communications:

maalan@eth.net