N Sathiya Moorthy is Senior Fellow and Director, ORF Chennai A double-graduate in Physics and Law, and with a journalism background, N. Sathiya Moorthy is at present Senior Fellow & Director of the Chennai Chapter of the Observer Research Foundation. Starting his journalism career in the Indian Express – now, the New Indian Express – at Thiruvananthapuram as a Staff Reporter in the late Seventies, Sathiya Moorthy worked as a Subeditor at the newspaper’s then sole publication centre in Kerala at Kochi. Sathiya Moorthy later worked in the Times of Deccan, Bangalore, and the Indian Express, Ahmedabad. Later, he worked as a Senior/Chief Sub at The Hindu, Chennai, and as News Editor, The Sunday Mail (Chennai edition). He has thus worked for most major English language national newspapers in the country, particularly with the advent of Tamil Nadu as the key decision maker in national politics demanding that all newspaper had a reporter in Chennai that they could not afford to have full-time. This period also saw Sathiya Moorthy working as Editor of Aside magazine, Chennai, and as Chief News Editor, Raj TV. In the new media of the day, he was contributing news-breaks and analyses to Rediff.com since its inception. Later, he worked as the Editorial Consultant/Chief News Editor of the trilingual Sri Lankan television group MTV, Shakti TV and Sirasa. Since 2002, Sathiya Moorthy has been the Honorary/full-time Director of the Chennai Chapter of the Observer Research Foundation. In the course of his job and out of personal interest, he has been studying India’s southern, Indian Ocean neighbours, namely Maldives and Sri Lanka, as well as the South Asian Association of Regional Cooperation (SAARC). He regularly writes on these subjects in traditional and web journals. He has also authored/edited books on Sri Lanka, and contributed chapters on India’s two immediate southern neighbours. His book on Maldives is waiting to happen. As part of his continuing efforts to update his knowledge and gain greater insights into the politics and the society in these two countries in particular, Sathiya Moorthy visits them frequently. Among other analytical work, he has been writing a weekly column for over 10 years in the Colombo-based Daily Mirror, first, and The Sunday Leader, since, for nearly 10 years, focusing mainly on Sri Lankan politics and internal dynamics, and at times on bilateral and multilateral relations of that nation. Expertise • Indian Politics, Elections, Public Affairs • Maldives • Sri Lanka • South Asia • Journalism and Mass Media Current Position(s) • Senior Fellow and Director, ORF Chennai Education • BGL, Madras University • BSc, Madurai University
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Sathiya Moorthy 10 July 2018 Election Commission Chairman Mahinda Deshapriya and his two fellow-members.......
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N Sathiya Moorthy 1 August 2018 With the Election Commission (EC) clearing the Joint Opposition candidacy.......
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N Sathiya Moorthy 5 August 2018 Reports that war-time Defence Secretary and a prospective presidential aspirant/hopeful.......
N Sathiya Moorthy 7 August 2018 Sad but true, the Constitution-making process has once again hit.......
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N Sathiya Moorthy 8 August 2018 The off-again-on-again buoyancy in the bilateral relations with the.......
N Sathiya Moorthy 10 August 2018 At a recent meeting, with envoys appointed when he.......
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N Sathiya Moorthy August 13, 2018 Calculated or otherwise, if Azhagiri’s firing of the first salvo.......
Sathiya Moorthy 14 August 2018 Living beyond one’s means is something that parents, family.......
N Sathiya Moorthy 16 August 2018 Independent of the promises of a fair and.......
N Sathiya Moorthy 17 August 2018 Sad but true. At a time when.......
N Sathiya Moorthy 23 August 2018 At last Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has spoken –.......
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith of Colombo, Jan. 13, 2015. Credit: Alan Holdren N Sathiya Moorthy .......