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Amit Verma, columnist with BusinessLine ’s weekly supplement BLink , has won the 2015 Bastiat Prize for Journalism. He had previously won the prize in 2007.
The prize, given by Los Angeles-based Reason Foundation, recognises the efforts of “journalists who are advancing the principles of free minds and free markets by educating their readers about individual liberty, free markets, and the rule of law.”
Mumbai-based Verma also blogs at indiauncut.com. In ‘Lighthouse’, his column in BLink , he regularly dissects the dynamics of a free market and the evolving role of the consumer in it.
“The Bastiat Prize is special for me because I have always held Frederic Bastiat’s writing as a model for me. He is remembered for spreading classical liberal ideas, and the values of a free society, in lucid and compelling prose, often using humour as a surgeon uses a knife.
“His ideas are relevant in India today, where personal and economic freedoms have been denied to us since Independence,” Verma had said on making the shortlist. He was shortlisted for the prize along with four journalists from the US and one from the UK, and was announced the winner at an event held in New York City on Tuesday.
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