Rajan Narayan
Rajan Narayan is an Indian journalist residing 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.
Career
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 India" to an English-language broadsheet.
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).
In his earlier years, 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.