Rajan Narayan
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Rajan Narayan is an Indian journalist, who has played an influential (if much debated) role in the history of contemporary journalism in Goa. He is the current editor of the Goan Observer, and formerly edited the Herald, a newspaper formerly known as O Heraldo between 1983 and 2003.
Narayan was the first editor of the Herald (O Heraldo), when the paper was converted, on October 10, 1983, from being the "last Portuguese daily in Asia" to being an English-language broadsheet.
He has played an influential role in shaping public opinion in Goa, particularly among the minority Catholic community, which largely makes up the readership of the Herald. In the mid-1980s, Narayan played a particularly important role in shaping the pro-Konkani side of the Konkani-versus-Marathi language agitation which rocked the state in particular from 1985-1987.
In 2003, he left the Herald, amidst some acrimony, and set up a weekly English-newspaper called the Goan Observer (which is published by his wife, journalist Tara Narayan on behalf of the Goan Observer Private Limited at La Campala Colony in Panjim (or Panaji, as the Goan state capital is officially called).
Prior to currently becoming Goa's longest serving editor, Narayan was based in Mumbai (then known as Bombay), the Indian commercial capital 600 kilometres north of Goa, where he worked in advertising, and for publications that included the Onlooker, Imprint and The Financial Express.
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