He has been twice conferred with Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for the Best Journalist of the Year and became the fifth Indian journalist to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2019.
The reason for their silence was simple. They understood, 'If the mob can do this to these people, it can do the same to me.' People joined the mob to silence others; what they did not realize was that they had also learnt to become and remain silent.
