The Brahm Kanchibhotla Scholarship for Baruch College journalism students will be establish in loving memory of Brahm Kanchibhotla, who passed away this year.
Brahm Kanchibhotla was a simple but hardworking individual. Born in a small village in Andhra Pradesh, India, Brahm is the definition of what it means when we say "hard work and perseverance leads to success."
In his 66 years, Brahm pursued his life-long passion for journalism. It was a passion that took him all over India, to the Middle East, the Caribbean, and finally to America in 1992.
At a time when most Indian immigrants were software engineers, it was Brahm's journalism skills that earned him notice, landing him a job at News India Times. Brahm often remarked about how tirelessly he worked to bring the news. But no matter what obstacle came in his path, he found a way to remain positive and have faith that things would work out for the best.
At News India Times for nearly a decade, Brahm was Business Editor, in charge of handling front-page articles while also reporting on financial news.
He later moved to India Weekly USA, a publication based in New York City, in a role that comprised setting coverage priorities and editorial policies. A short year-long stint followed at The Urban Indian, a New York-based publication for South Asians where he was a contributing writer focusing coverage on tiger conservation, restaurant workers and small businesses, and environmentalists’ reactions to the then-planned Bush budget.
Brahm is perhaps most-known in the South Asian journalist community from when he was Senior Correspondent at the United News of India (UNI) news wire for half-a-decade where he wrote about NYC's economy and its ethnic communities as well as international news focusing on the United Nations.
Brahm joined Mergermarket in 2007, after receiving a Master's Degree in Business Journalism from Baruch College, as a Content Editor where he put his excellent editing skills to use. A stickler for details and a sharp editor, Brahm's name is familiar to Acuris reporters working on mergers and acquisitions, special situations, equity capital markets, activist situations and regulatory/antitrust news.
His colleagues know him as a knowledgeable, down-to-earth, rustic person as well as a “walking encyclopedia.” A Telugu-speaker and a devout Hindu, Brahm is fondly remembered by his former colleagues for their customary evening tea walk to a Korean tea shop on 28th and Fifth for many years. Not many know as Brahm never made a big show of it, but the current Indian prime minister sometimes joined them on these tea walks back in 2000.
Brahm lived in Levittown, New York and is survived by his wife Anjana, son Sudama and daughter Srujana. From a young age, Brahm taught his children the value of being good to others, working hard, and having patience, all values that helped him succeed in his own passion.
"Whatever good we give to others will find its way back to us someday," he would say.
On his passing, let us celebrate a magnanimous man and a lively, dignified soul. A soul that brought joy and fulfillment to many, and whose legacy will live on forever.
Please help us honor Brahm with a gift to this scholarship in his memory.
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