Padma Vibhusban awardee P. Narayanan advises young journos to bring common man's issues to light
By Meena R. Prashant in Media News on Wednesday, 24th June 2026 at 3:28pm
Ask a man who has just received the country's second-highest civilian honour what he would tell the next generation, and you expect a speech. P. Narayanan gave the opposite.
"I'm not a big person to advise anyone," the 90-year-old told Influencing, with the flatness of someone who means it. Then, almost reluctantly, he allowed himself one line: journalists, he said, should try their best to bring the issues faced by ordinary people to light.
That is the entire instruction. No talk of influence, access or legacy. Just the work, pointed outward, away from the journalist and toward the people the journalism is supposed to serve. For anyone who has watched Narayanan's six decades in Malayalam journalism, it is less a piece of advice than a description of what he has always done.
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