Ramnath Goenka, his maternal grandfather, was the founder of the Indian Express Group.

[1] He self identifies himself as Tamilian [2] Viveck Goenka completed his B Tech, Chemical Engineering from Madras University in 1979.

He has also been a Council member of the Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC), and was one of the past presidents of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS).

The awards cover a range of categories - from politics and investigation to sport and civic reporting.

Goenka became Secretary of Tamil Nadu Badminton Association at the age of twenty one.

He was the first person to start a prize money, ranking and selection tournament in 1991 for juniors and sub-juniors.