One of the senior Indian Journalist who works for NDTV news channel, Ravish Kumar has been awarded the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award which is one of the most prestigious awards also regarded as the Asian version of the Nobel Prize. This year, five individuals including him were declared winners of the award. The other four winners are Ko Swe Win from Myanmar who is also a journalist, Raymundo Pujante Cayabyad from the Philippines who is a musician,

Kim Jong-Ki from South Korea who is an activist and Angkhana Neelapaijit who is a human rights activist from Thailand. Ravish Kumar NDTV’s senior executive editors and one of the most influential TV journalists.

He runs a program named as “Prime Time” which deals with real-life incidents and problems of the ordinary people.

Let’s know more about him

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Ravish Kumar, born and brought up in Jitwarpur village in Bihar. He has joined New Delhi Television Network (NDTV) news channel in 1996 where he just started his career of journalism as a field reporter. He is a sober, incisive and well-informed editor and journalist.

Ravish Kumar easily interacts with poor people, travels extensively and uses social media platforms to stay in touch with the huge audience that watches him. This is how he makes stories about his famous program.

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Ravish Kumar deserves to win this award as he is like the voice for the voiceless through his ethical journalism and unfaltering commitment towards his profession. These were the words said by the board of trustees while electing Kumar for the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay award.

The award will be presented at a ceremony in Manila on 9 September 9,2019, where the winners will receive a certificate and a medal with an embossed image of Ramon Magsaysay, as per the sources.

Other than him who got Ramon Magsaysay Award-

1. Ko Swe Win, editor-in-chief:

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Ko Swe Win who is the editor-in-chief of the Yangon-based investigative news outlet Myanmar now. He also received Asia’s most prestigious award. Do you know? He is the seventh citizen from Myanmar to receive this honour.

2. Raymundo Pujante Cayabyab, Musician:

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He is an eminent musician from the Philippines. He also served as a music faculty at the University of the Philippines. He also runs a music studio along with his wife. He is well-known for his music and has conducted free music workshops for thousands of student in the country.

3. Kim Jong-Ki, anti-bullying campaigner:

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Kim Jong-Ki who is from South Korea is an anti-bullying campaigner who brilliantly tackles youth suicide in South Korea. She got encouragement for this after losing her 16 years old son who took his life after he got bullied in school.

4. Angkhana Neelapaijit, human right activist:

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Angkhana Neelapaijit from Thailand is a human right activist also one of them who got this award. She chose to become a human right activist after her husband got abducted and later murdered for helping troubled Muslim region of Southern Thailand

The award will be presented at a ceremony in Manila on 9 September 9, 2019, where the winners will receive a certificate and a medal with an embossed image of Ramon Magsaysay, as per the sources. So, apart from Indian Journalist Ravish Kumar, these four also receive the Nobel Prize who are doing great in their relevant fields.

You must be familiar that entrepreneur VG Siddhartha who is best known as the ‘King of Coffee’ among everyone has put his life to an end. Yes! this is utterly shocking that the man behind coffee is no more between us. He had committed suicide and his dead body has been found on the banks of Netravati River in Dakshin Kanna district of Karnataka after two days after he went missing.

We can’t express our grief in words that how the man has impacted the lives of millions of people by introducing the coffee in a beautiful way which has helped us to make the bonds of relationship between our friends or closed ones stronger that we can never forget. Curious to know more about him? Let us take you through the journey of his life from the very beginning.

Read on to know more about VG Siddhartha, the chairman of our very favourite coffee chain ‘Café Coffee Day’.

His Family Background

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Siddhartha comes from a family that has an impeccable history of growing coffee. Though he had a very strong family business of growing and selling coffee, still he doesn’t want to enter this industry as he aspired to be an investment banker at a reputed firm in Mumbai.  With the passion to become an investment banker, he completed his Master’s degree in Economics from Mangalore University. And, in the year 1994, he launched his investment firm by the name ‘Sivan Securities’.

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The launch of CCD

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He gave birth to CCD in August 1996. It was when he opened his first CCD outlet in Bengaluru’s most visited shopping street, Bridge road. And, we better know about the brand new and how well it has done. Besides maintain its strong presence in Indi, it has also expanded in countries like Austria, Czech Republic, and Malaysia, with more than 1,750 stores across India and 60,000 plus vending machines.

Besides running the coffee business, he had other businesses too

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The CCD owner has other businesses too besides coffee selling and plantation like logistics, technology parks, financial services and investments in technology and software companies.

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Life to an end

Siddhartha’s letter to CCD employees via: Twitter

Since Monday when he went missing, people were blind guessing about him and his whereabouts. Finally, the police had found him after performing extensive research for more than 36 hours. Even he wrote a heartbreaking letter explaining the reason for his sudden breakdown.

The reason he mentioned there in the letter was his incapability of creating a profitable business model for CCD despite putting many efforts. After listening to the news of his demise, people have started condoling the tragedy and have shared their favourite memories which they have made over coffee.

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Many of them even tweeted on the Twitter platform also regarding their sweetest memories, where everyone has appraised CCD and its mind-blowing outlets that have made people enjoy a lot.

Women spoke about how CCD washrooms have helped so much to them while travelling on long routes:

Yes, Mr #VGSiddhartha created a chain of coffee shops where people bonded and forged relationships. But what I’ll remember most with gratitude, as will many other women, is that a #CCD on the highways meant decent restrooms, a rarity till then.

— subha j rao (@subhajrao) July 31, 2019

A mother was fascinated once by the kind act of CCD workers when he wanted milk for his son:

Among many memorable @CafeCoffeeDay
experiences
– this one touched me.
2010, I was traveling with my toddler son. Had forgotten to carry milk. I asked CCD to fill a bottle for me, charge me for 2 coffees. They refused to bill it. RIP #VGSiddhartha, your brand will live long. pic.twitter.com/eAalRNoYkO

— Nandita Iyer (@saffrontrail) July 31, 2019

He should have realized there is more to life than these failures. His family. His ability to build something like #Cafecoffeeday How many of us could even do that? He was doing bad but temporarily. #VGSiddhartha You had it in you, sir. I hope you are fine. Blessings.

— Curious Aunty (@curious_aunty) July 30, 2019

So, this was Siddhartha’s inspiring story and how he ended up his life on a sad note leaving all the coffee lovers in tears behind.

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YouTube has become people’s frenzy these days. It’s one social network that is best known for entertainment and educational channels. Uploading a video on YouTube is just a cake walk. But we are going to introduce you with 7 YouTube stars, who published their skills, the talent on YouTube in order to pursue their passion. Guess what? – They are amongst the world’s millionaires now.

Read on to unfold the whole story.

1. Ian Andrew Hecox and Daniel Anthony Padilla: Smosh

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‘Smosh’ is known for a sketch comedy act based on Pokémon games. Ian Andrew Hecox and Daniel Anthony Padilla are childhood best friends and founder of the channel. They rose to fame with 6 billion views and over 22 million subscribers. Smosh is still a hit on YouTube.

2. PewDiePie

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Name sure twists your tongue but the whole story might just blow your mind. Felix Arvid Ulf Kjellberg, known as PewDiePie has 49 million subscribers. And this one beats Rihanna’s Vevo account. This hot-dog seller followed his passion and made a successful career out of it. Truly very inspiring!

3. Lilly Singh

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Her story is truly inspiring as she started making videos while struggling with depression. The Canadian girl started making videos full of sarcasms on her ethnic Punjabi culture and regular daily life issues. She made a big fortune out of her passion and depression.

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4. Michelle Phan

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Michelle released her official makeup video in 2010. You will be surprised to know that she is a self-taught beauty expert. She also co-founded a beauty product subscription service called Ipsy. Its value is over $500 million.

5. Rosanna Pansino

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Her passion for baking made her a YouTube star. She simply followed her grandmothers recipes and her show called “Nerdy Nummies”, became extensively popular on YouTube. She then went on to publish her cookbook which was featured on the New York Times bestsellers’ list.

6. Fine Brothers

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Benny and Rafi fine uploaded funny videos that went viral. Their channel became so popular that it earned them a TV show with Nickelodeon.

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7. Lindsey Stirling

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You will be amazed to know that Stirling, a performance artist, violinist, was initially rejected by a record company. She found success through her YouTube channel which won her the 2015 Billboard Music Awards for Top Dance/Electronic Album.