User:Susi Thirugnanam/sandbox

Mr. Susi Thirugnanam, Director, Punnagai Media is a positive journalist, based at Chennai, India. He has played lead role in various popular media including Sun TV, NDTV and Punnagai Media for more than 25 years.

He worked earlier in NDTV as Input Editor for Vijay TV News. Then he worked as the Channel Head of Sun News. Here, the team under his leadership was instrumental in introducing automated popular live broadcast system in Tamil. This team reported Tsunami tragedy and general elections with on the spot live reports.

Mr. Susi Thirugnanam himself anchored 2 popular infotainment programs – ‘Santhipom Sinthipom’ and ‘Nambikkai’ in Sun News Channel for nearly 50 episodes.

In 2008 he resigned his top position in Sun news channel and launched the inspiring educational magazines Genius Punnagai and Kids Punnagai. This was his conscious move to be independent and to work for his own dream venture.

Genius Punnagai motivates the students of higher grades with current affairs, success principles, study techniques etc. Kids Punnagai entertains the junior students from KG to 5th Standard with puzzles, drawing, colouring, pictorial stories etc. Both the editions have a combined circulation of 1,50,000 copies per month.

Mr. Susi Thirugnanam has authored 4 books in Tamil, 2 books in English. Mr. Susi Thirugnanam and Punnagai Media venture have the same mission statement - “Smile in the face of mankind”.