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Rajdeep Sardesai
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Rajdeep Dilip Sardesai
24 May 1965 |
| Education | • St. Xavier's College, Mumbai (B.A.) • University College, Oxford (M.A., BCL) |
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| Employer | India Today Group |
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Sagarika Ghose
(m. 1994) |
| Children | 2 |
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| Honours | Padma Shri |
Rajdeep Sardesai (born 24 May 1965) is an Indian news anchor, reporter, journalist and author. He is a consulting editor and anchor of India Today Television. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Global Broadcast News, that included CNN-IBN, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat, before resigning in July 2014.
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Early life
Sardesai was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, to a Goan father and a Gujarati mother. His father, Dilip Sardesai, was a former Indian Test cricketer and his mother, Nandini, is an activist in Mumbai and former head of the Department of Sociology at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. He completed his schooling up to ICSE from the Campion School, Mumbai, and did two years of ISC at The Cathedral & John Connon School, Mumbai. Thereafter he graduated in economics from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. He then went to University College, Oxford, earning the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in jurisprudence (promoted to Master of Arts by seniority) and Bachelor of Civil Law.
While at Oxford he made six first-class cricket appearances for Oxford University and one for a combined Oxford and Cambridge side against the 1987 Pakistani touring team. He was awarded a cricket Blue at Oxford.
Career
Sardesai worked with The Times of India for six years, after joining it in October 1988, and was the city editor of its Mumbai edition. He entered television journalism in 1994 as political editor of New Delhi Television (NDTV). He was the Managing Editor of both NDTV 24X7 and NDTV India and was responsible for overseeing the news policy for both. He hosted popular shows like The Big Fight at NDTV.
He quit NDTV on 17 April 2005 to start his own company, Global Broadcast News (GBN), in collaboration with the American giant CNN and Raghav Bahl's TV18. The latter broadcasts the Indian Edition (in English) of CNBC called CNBC-TV18, the Hindi consumer channel, CNBC Awaaz and an international channel, SAW. The new channel with Sardesai as the Editor-in-Chief was named CNN-IBN. It went on air on 17 December 2005. Channel 7 has also come under this umbrella after Sardesai's company bought a 46 per cent stake in the channel. Channel 7 was later renamed IBN7.
On 29 May 2014, Reliance Industries Ltd announced it would be acquiring control in Network 18 Media & Investments Ltd, the parent of CNN-IBN, IBN7 and CNBC-TV18. The board of RIL approved funding of up to ₹40 billion (US$680 million) to Independent Media Trust (IMT), of which RIL is the sole beneficiary, for acquisition of control in Network 18 and its subsidiaries. Subsequently, on 1 July 2014, Sardesai, editor-in-chief of CNN-IBN, along with the entire founding team — editorial and managerial — resigned from the Network18 group.
He is a consulting editor with the India Today Group and anchors a prime time show on India Today since 2014.
Personal life
He is married to journalist, author and Trinamool Congress leader Sagarika Ghose. Sardesai and Ghose have two children, son Ishan who is ENT surgeon, and daughter Tarini.
Awards
- The Padma Shri, awarded by the Govt of India, in 2008
- The International Broadcasters award for coverage of the 2002 Gujarat riots and the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism award for 2006
- In ENBA award 2020 Rajdeep Sardesai received lifetime achievement award.
Books
- 2024: The Election that Surprised India, released on 8 November 2024
- 2019: How Modi Won India
- Newsman: Tracking India in the Modi Era, published by Rupa Publications India, 6 August 2018
- 2014: The Election that Changed India, released on 1 November 2014
- Democracy's XI: The Great Indian Cricket Story, published by Juggernaut Books
- Co-authored chapter "The Truth Hurts: Gujarat and the Role of the Media" in the book Gujarat:The making of a tragedy, edited by Siddharth Varadarajan and published by Penguin (ISBN: 978-0143029014). The book is about the 2002 Gujarat riots.
- Real Heroes: Ordinary People Extraordinary Service, co-authored with Nita Ambani
