Ravi Chaturvedi is an Indian sports commentator and author of twenty seven books on cricket, including World Cup Cricket: A Compendium known to be first Indian sports commentator in Hindi.
10 Facts About Ravi Chaturvedi
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Ravi Chaturvedi was honored by the Government of India, in 2012, with the fourth highest Indian civilian award of Padma Shri.
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Ravi Chaturvedi has been on Board of Directors, Delhi District Cricket Association, member, Bombay Natural History Society and on the advisory committee of The National Zoology Park.
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Ravi Chaturvedi is a former faculty member of Zoology for forty years at Zakir Husain Delhi College, University of Delhi.
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In 1960, Government of India decided to have Hindi coverage of all major sporting events and Ravi Chaturvedi made his debut as first Hindi commentator of All India Radio in 1961.
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Ravi Chaturvedi has assisted UNESCO and World Wide Fund for Nature in an international project Naming of Cricketing Countries based on their Endangered Animal for Fostering Peace, International Understanding and Promoting Environmental Protection.
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Ravi Chaturvedi has contributed regularly in all major national dailies both in English and Hindi, major sports weeklies of the country and in Australia, England and West-Indies.
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Ravi Chaturvedi is a regular cricket columnist and even acts as an expert on Trinity Mirror TV and writes on other facets of social activities of the country in a Chennai based daily Trinity Mirror.
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Ravi Chaturvedi has contributed to the book, Sojourners to Settlers, writing on the topic, Contribution of the Indo-West Indians to Caribbean Cricket.
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Ravi Chaturvedi writes editorials and columns for Hindustan Times, an English-language daily from India.