Sevanti Ninan is an Indian journalist, columnist, researcher and media critic.
[4] Ninan was the recipient of the Chameli Devi Jain Award for Outstanding Women Mediapersons in 1989,[5] and is a visiting scholar (fellowship) at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, an academic center associated with the University of Pennsylvania.
[6] Nivan began her career in journalism at the Hindustan Times and subsequently became a correspondent and later an editor with The Indian Express.
[6] She is also the author of the book, Headlines from the Heartland which is described as the first in-depth study into the growth of the expanding Hindi language newspaper industry in India.
[4] Ninan is a regular columnist at The Telegraph and has formerly been a columnist at several major newspapers including The Hindu, The Indian Express and Mint, the financial newspaper founded by The Wall Street Journal and Hindustan Times.