The Indian media is in a state of "crisis" which is not accidental or random, but systemic and structural, prominent Indian journalist Ravish Kumar said here on Monday as while accepting the prestigious 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award, considered as the Asian version of the Nobel Prize.

Kumar, 44, is NDTV India's senior executive editor and one of India's most influential TV journalists who have been reporting real-life and under-reported problems of ordinary people, the award citation by the Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundation said.