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| birth_date = 9 April 1919<br />
| birth_place = [[Proddatur]], [[Kadapa district]], Andhra Pradesh, India<br />
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'''Avadhanam Sita Raman''' (1919-2001) was an Indian writer and journalist and a former editor of the [[Illustrated Weekly of India]].<ref name="Sikhchic">{{cite web | url=http://www.sikhchic.com/columnists/the_man_who_knew_everything_part_ii | title=Sikhchic | publisher=Sikhchic | date=25 March 2014 | access-date=2 January 2015}}</ref> Born on 9 April 1919 at [[Proddatur]] in [[Kadapa district]] in the South Indian state of [[Andhra Pradesh]], he secured his master's degree in economics from the [[Andhra University College of Arts and Commerce]], [[Waltair]].<ref name="A. S. Raman dead">{{cite web | url=http://www.thehindu.com/2001/06/28/stories/0228000s.htm | archive-url=https://archive.today/20150102070948/http://www.thehindu.com/2001/06/28/stories/0228000s.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=2 January 2015 | title=A. S. Raman dead | date=27 June 2001 | work=[[The Hindu]] | access-date=2 January 2015}}</ref> He started his career in 1936 as a writer and journalist with freelance contributions<ref name="Modern Painters">{{cite journal | url=http://www.southasiaarchive.com/Content/sarf.120260/222600/008 | title=Modern Painters | author=Avadhanam Sitaraman | journal=The March of India | year=1949 | volume=1 | issue=4 | pages=26–29}}</ref> to English and Telugu publications such as Triveni, a literary and cultural quarterly.<ref name="A. S. Raman dead" /> Later, in 1943, he joined the [[Hindustan Times]] in the capacity of a sub editor, moved on to publications such as [[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]] and [[The Times of India]] before joining the [[Illustrated Weekly of India]] in 1953, and rose to the rank of the Editor, the first Indian editor of the weekly.<ref name="A. S. Raman dead" /> He also worked as an art consultant to [[The Studio (magazine)]], London. At the end of the seventies, he joined [[Swarajya (magazine)|Swarajya]], a Chennai-based weekly magazine.<ref name="A. S. Raman dead" /><br />
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A former dean of the Faculty of Art at the [[Tamil University]], Thanjavur, Raman was honored by the [[Government of India]], in 2001, with the fourth highest [[Indian honours system|Indian civilian award]] of [[Padma Shri]].<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |title=Padma Awards |publisher=Padma Awards |date=2014 |access-date=11 November 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-date=15 November 2014 }}</ref> He died on 24 June 2001.<ref name="A. S. Raman dead" /><br />
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* [[Illustrated Weekly of India]]<br />
* [[The Studio (magazine)]]<br />
* [[Tamil University]]<br />
* [[Swarajya (magazine)]]<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{cite journal | url=http://www.southasiaarchive.com/Content/sarf.120260/222600/008 | title=Modern Painters | author=Avadhanam Sitaraman | journal=The March of India | year=1949 | volume=1 | issue=4 | pages=26–29}}<br />
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