Sumanth C. Raman is a popular Indian Television anchor, political analyst, author and sports commentator. . He was the host of '' BSNL Sports Quiz'' on

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channel.

Education

Dr Raman holds a Diploma in Child Health and an MD in General Medicine. He also holds a Diploma in Computer Applications.

Career

Dr Raman's '' BSNL Sports Quiz'' is in the

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for being the longest running weekly quiz show on Indian television Previously, he was the anchor of ''All Out for No Loss!'' on

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As a sports commentator, he has hosted over 2000 sports programs, including the Asia Cup Hockey Tournament (2007), the Twenty20 Cricket World Cup in Tamil for ESPN Star Sports (2007), and the World Team Squash Championships (2007). He also provided commentary for the Squash World Cup of 2011 He frequently appears as a featured sports analyst on

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, Dinathanthi etc. Aside from Sports, he also does live coverage of current affairs. Dr.Sumanth has worked successfully in analysing and predicting election results across several elections in India, including most recently the results of the Lok Sabha elections 2024. In 2009, he was involved with the analyses and debate over the Lok Sabha Polls for

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, the Tamil Nadu Assembly Elections 2011 on DD Podhigai, Pre Poll Debates and Analysis on Zee Tamil in 2011 and election-day live coverage on DD Podhigai. He has hosted political debate shows, including ''Makkal Theerpu'' and ''Nattu Nadappu'' (both for Win TV) and ''Tamizha Tamizha'' on

. He is a well known political analyst and appears regularly on national channels in India like

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and Republic (TV channel). He also features regularly on Tamil television channels like

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etc. Dr.Sumanth Raman is the author of the GK Smart series of Books, a General Knowledge series of books for students from Class 1 to Class 8 and also the author of "Sick Business" a book highlighting the crisis in the healthcare industry in India. This book was published in 2024 by Harper Collins India. He writes extensively on politics, healthcare and sports for a number of online platforms including

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etc. As a documentary filmmaker, he has been involved with the making of over 200 television documentaries, including "Power of the Ballot" in 1996, for which he won a National Award for Best Anchor, awarded by the UGC. He was also the winner of the Sony-ICD Video Award for the best film in the South and South East Asian category for These Leaves Never Wither He has also been a senior anchor at State functions. Since 1993, he has been compering the State Independence Day and Republic Day celebrations in Chennai. In 2012, he also anchored the Diamond Jubilee celebrations of the Tamil Nadu State Legislative Assembly and the Sesquicentennial Celebrations of the

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. He has also compered the Inaugural Function of the World Tamil Conference in 2010 and the '100 Years of Indian Cinema' state celebrations in 2013. In 2019, Dr Raman announced that he was dropped from hosting '' BSNL Sports Quiz'' anymore due to his political views being 'unpalatable' to a certain political party. He wrote, “Over the last 3-4 years there have been multiple and repeated attempts made by those affiliated to or supporters of the BJP to oust me from the program because of me airing my political views on national and regional channels.” Dr.Sumanth Raman has a large following on X (formerly Twitter) and his X handle is @sumanthraman. More details about him are available at www.sumanthraman.com

Notable Media Appearances

References

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