Dr. Radhe Krishan

Radhe Krishan (born 15 April 1982) is an Indian mass communication researcher and currently serving the Government of India at Ministry of AYUSH as a Research Officer (Publications) with the Central Council for Research in Ayurvedic Sciences (CCRAS), Ministry of AYUSH, Government of India at New Delhi. Formerly, he has been an assistant professor and taught journalism and mass communication at Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra and Vivekananda Institute of Professional Studies, a Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University affiliated college. He has produced notable works in the field of mass communication and journalism with major focus on new media, social media, advertising and public relations.

Early life and education

He was born in a small village in Nalagarh Tehsil in Solan district, in Northern State of India, Himachal Pradesh. He studied at Government College for Men in Chandigarh and did his master's degree in mass communication from School of Communication Studies of Panjab University. He joined BlueLotus PR, a public relations agency as management trainee post his master's degree and later on he moved to Delhi for his higher studies. He graduated from Indian Institute of Mass Communication and received a post-graduate diploma in advertising and public relations. He has been a research fellow at School of Communication Studies before joining VIPS. Radhe did an inter-caste marriage with Baninder Rahi, who was a journalist with The Indian Express before marriage and later joined as a teacher of journalism and mass communication at the same college.

Publications

Krishan has published extensively in publications pertaining to the field of journalism and mass communication. His research titled 'Media as a Change Agent: A Study of Three Villages- Urban, Semi-Urban and Rural' has been referred by more than 15 thousand internet users.