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Four decades of explaining India to itself: in a classroom, a newsroom, a legislature, and now to about a million subscribers.
At a glance
The journey
Act I · Beginnings
He grew up in Edulapuram, in what was then Adilabad district. Schooled in Telugu to Class 6, he moved to an English-medium school, failed his first unit tests, taught himself the language, and came first by the half-yearly exams.
As a boy he was asked to read the Ramayana and Mahabharata and retell them to villagers. He names that as where the habit began: learn, then pass it on. Eenadu, 2021
Act II · The resolve
In 1977, holding a copy of the Illustrated Weekly, he resolved to write for it. By his account, he did, in 1986. Eenadu, 2021
A science graduate in electronics, he turned to journalism, then took a doctorate in political science. As a student he won a national Junior Research Fellowship in Journalism. his blog
Act III · The classroom
At Osmania University's Department of Communication & Journalism, which he once headed, he taught hundreds of the journalists now working in Hyderabad. The Week
The University Grants Commission gave him its Career Award in Journalism in 1994. He lectured at the national academies that train India's police and administrative officers, and retired from Osmania in 2023. Siasat
Act IV · The newsroom
He wrote for the Indian Express and Times of India groups and ran a Telugu news magazine, ANALYSIS. He became editor-in-chief of HMTV, founding chairman of 10TV when it launched in 2013, and editor of The Hans India. The Hans India
His Hans India editorials became two books: one on the state of the nation, one on the art of living.
Act V · The Council
In 2007, in a field of more than fifty, the Hyderabad–Ranga Reddy–Mahabubnagar graduates elected him to the Legislative Council as an independent. They did so again in 2009. He served until 2015, in the united state's Council and then Telangana's. CEO Telangana
“I am contesting as an independent because I am independent minded.” TNM, 2021
Act VI · The screens
His YouTube channel had passed a million subscribers by 2025, with more than twenty thousand videos, most in Telugu, each titled in Telugu and English. tracker, Aug 2025
In 2026 he runs ProfessorN.in, a news site that reads its articles aloud and lets readers change the text size. This page borrows both ideas. ProfessorN.in
Timeline
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His ideas
Across four decades, one test runs through his work: judge a policy by the Constitution and by the numbers, not by who proposed it. He uses it to defend public education, welfare and the rights of the states, to protect dissent, and to question headline claims. TNM
Enter The Mind of Prof. K. Nageshwar →
How he thinks
Range
Chapter titles from Interpreting Contemporary India (2016), his collected Hans India editorials. contents
Two languages
On his channel he speaks to a mass audience in Telugu; in print he writes in English. Every video title carries both, joined by a double bar.
Books
AuthorHouse, November 2016 · 472 pages
His Hans India editorials, gathered into ten sections that run from the Constitution and the economy to education, disasters, space and the world.
Google BooksPartridge India, 19 May 2017 · 272 pages
Life lessons drawn from his own story, the Panchatantra and the Gita, and research in psychology and decision science. Each chapter closes on a moral.
PartridgeMoments
The portraits on these pages were shared with his permission. These frames wait for the moments he chooses to add.
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