Former Asia Pacific Correspondent of The Hindu, P.S. Suryanarayana, passed away at his home in Sastri Nagar in the city on Sunday afternoon. He was 75. He served in The Hindu for nearly 23 years and has worked as a foreign correspondent from Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Singapore.
His wife, Jayanthi Padmanabhan, said that the end came very suddenly. “He was feeling a bit uneasy after lunch, and we got ready to go to the hospital. But he collapsed. He was under treatment for excess potassium and were to go for a review with the cardiologist,” she said. The funeral will be held on Monday at 11.30 a.m. at Besant Nagar.
Born to Pisupati Sadasiva and Venkatalakshmi at Salem on July 15, 1949, Suryanarayana did his MA in Politics and Public Administration at Presidency College. After his retirement, he worked in the Institute of South Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore and then at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. The couple returned to Chennai in 2020. He has written several books, including The Elusive Tipping Point, Grey Zone Governance in Geo Politics, and Smart Diplomacy – Exploring China-India Synergy.
Published – July 14, 2025 12:01 am IST
