Karam singh walia biography channel

AN accidental journalist. That was how former TV3 broadcast journalist Datuk Karam Singh Walia described his entry into the world of journalism.

The former secondary school teacher and university lecturer is probably the country’s best known broadcast journalist, besides being a household name through his hard hitting investigative reports.

And he counts among his biggest fans the prime minister’s wife, Tun Dr Siti Hasmah Mohamad Ali.

“In my style of broadcasting, I wanted to make the audience understand what I am trying to say about environmental issues.

So, I used Malay proverbs or idioms.

“At that time, Tun Dr Siti Hasmah told me that she would stop all her kitchen chores the moment she heard my environmental segment in the news and listened to what I had to say. I was honoured when she told me that,” Karam told theSun in an interview recently.

Born into a Sikh Punjabi ex-policeman’s family in Teluk Intan, Pera