Event reports
Apart from the editor and managing director of The Statesman, Mr. Ravindra Kumar, highly distinguished representatives from politics and law were present. Amongst others, Mrs. Maneka Gandhi, MP and former Minister, as well as Mr. Ajay Singh, former MP and Minister, discussed the responsibility of journalistic reporting with the students. Mr. Pravin Parekh, Senior Advocate, President of the Supreme Court Bar Association and Mr. Samar Bansal, Advocate at the Delhi High Court, explained the legal consequences of a libel action to the soon-to-be journalists.
The Statesman Print Journalism School was founded in 2008 by the C.R. Irani Foundation in cooperation with the newspaper The Statesman and the KAS.