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Rajdeep Sardesai
Rajdeep Sardesai in 2010
Born
Rajdeep Dilip Sardesai

(1965-05-24)24 May 1965(age 59)
Ahmedabad,Gujarat,India[1]
Education•St. Xavier's College, Mumbai(B.A.)
•University College, Oxford(M.A.,BCL)
Occupations
EmployerIndia Today Group
Spouse
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(m.1994)​
Children2
Parent
HonoursPadma Shri

Rajdeep Sardesai(born 24 May 1965) is an Indian news anchor, reporter, journalist and author. He is a consulting editor and an anchor ofIndia Today Television.[3][4]He was the Editor-in-Chief ofGlobal Broadcast News,that includedCNN-IBN,IBN7 andIBN-Lokmat,before resigning in July 2014.

Early life[edit]

Sardesai was born inAhmedabad,Gujaratto aGoanfather and aGujaratimother.[1]His father,Dilip Sardesai,was a former IndianTest cricketerand his mother, Nandini, is an activist inMumbaiand former head of the Department of Sociology atSt. Xavier's College, Mumbai.[1]He completed his schooling up toICSEfrom theCampion School,Mumbai,and did two years ofISCatThe Cathedral & John Connon School,Mumbai.Thereafter he graduated in economics fromSt. Xavier's College,Mumbai.He then went toUniversity College, Oxford,earning the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in jurisprudence (promoted toMaster of Artsby seniority) andBachelor of Civil Law.[5]

While at Oxford he made sixfirst-class cricketappearances forOxford Universityand one for a combined Oxford andCambridgeside against the1987 Pakistani touring team.[6]He was awarded a cricketBlueat Oxford.[7]

Career[edit]

Sardesai atIIMin 2008

Sardesai worked withThe Times of Indiafor six years, after joining it in October 1988,[8]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 likeThe Big Fightat NDTV.

He quit NDTV on 17 April 2005[9]to start his own company,Global Broadcast News(GBN), in collaboration with theAmerican giant CNNandRaghav Bahl'sTV18.[3]The latter broadcasts the Indian Edition (in English) ofCNBCcalled CNBC-TV18, the Hindi consumer channel,CNBC Awaazand an international channel, SAW. The new channel with Sardesai as the Editor-in-Chief was namedCNN-IBN.It went on air on 17 December 2005.Channel 7has 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 Ltdannounced it would be acquiring control in Network 18 Media & Investments Ltd, the parent of CNN-IBN, IBN7 and CNBC-TV18.[10]The board of RIL approved funding of up to₹40 billion(US$480 million) to Independent Media Trust (IMT), of which RIL is the sole beneficiary, for acquisition of control in Network 18 and its subsidiaries.[11]Subsequently, on 1 July 2014, Sardesai, editor-in-chief of CNN-IBN, along with the entire founding team — editorial and managerial — resigned from theNetwork18group.[12]

He is a consulting editor with theIndia Today Groupand anchors a prime time show onIndia Todaysince 2014.[13]

Personal life[edit]

He is married to journalist and authorSagarika Ghose.[14]Sardesai and Ghose have two children, son Ishan who is ENT surgeon,[15]and daughter Tarini.[16]

Controversy[edit]

On 30 September 2014, Sardesai was allegedly heckled by a group of Indians in theMadison SquareofNew York,and physically assaulted members of the group.[17]While Sardesai claimed that he was jostled by the crowd, these allegations were denied by eyewitnesses, who claimed that Rajdeep "began the physical assault". [18][19]

Sardesai and others were acquitted of defamation by a Hyderabad court in November 2019 after issuing an unconditional apology toIPSofficer Rajiv Trivedi for false reporting on his role in thedeath of Sohrabuddin Sheikh.[20][21]

In January 2021, Sardesai was taken off TV for two weeks byIndia Todaywhile also cutting his monthly salary for alleging in a retracted tweet thatNavreet Singhwas killed in a police shooting during2020–2021 Indian farmers' protest.Delhi Policeclaimed that his tweet on the cause of death was not accurate and referred to the CCTV footage of the incident of Singh's death.[22][23]Later, Sardesai was booked for sedition over the Republic Day violence and the FIR stated that they shared misinformed news and ‘instigated violence’ on 26 January.[24]Several journalists and politicians who reported about the2021 Farmers' Republic Day paradewere charged withseditionby the Delhi police and 5BJP-ruled state police.[25]Siddharth Varadarajancalled the police FIRs "malicious prosecution".[26][27]Press Club of India (PCI), the Editors’ Guild of India, the Press Association, the Indian Women's Press Corps (IWPC), the Delhi Union of Journalists and the Indian Journalists Union in a joint press conference asked the sedition law to be scrapped.[25][28]Editors Guild of India spoke against invoking of the sedition charge on journalists. The guild termed the FIRs as an "attempt to intimidate, harass, browbeat and stifle the media".[29]

Awards[edit]

Rajdeep Sardesai (center) during the book launch of his book Newsman atTeen Murti Bhavan.(L-R)Kakoli Ghosh Dastidar,Yogendra Yadav,Gaurav Bhatia,Naresh Gujral,Sachin PilotandAsadudin Owaisi.

Books[edit]

  • 2019: How Modi Won India[33]
  • 2019 Modi Ki Jeet[34]
  • Newsman: Tracking India in the Modi Era,published by Rupa Publications India, 6 August 2018
  • 2014: The Election that Changed India,[35]released on 1 November 2014
  • 2014 Chunav: Jisne Bharat Ko Badal Diya[36]
  • Democracy's XI,published by Juggernaut Books[37]
  • Team Loktantra Bhartiya Cricket Ki Shandar Kahani[38]
  • Co-authored chapter "The Truth Hurts: Gujarat and the Role of the Media" in the bookGujarat:The making of a tragedy,edited bySiddharth Varadarajanand published by Penguin (ISBN978-0143029014). The book is about the2002 Gujarat riots.
  • Real Heroes[39]

References[edit]

  1. ^abc"Rajdeep Sardesai".Moneycontrol.Archived fromthe originalon 8 March 2018.Retrieved27 May2021.
  2. ^Mishra, Ashish K. (4 July 2014)."Rajdeep Sardesai, Sagarika Ghose quit Network18".
  3. ^abVincent, Pheroze L. (12 September 2014)."Rajdeep Sardesai to join TV Today".The Hindu.
  4. ^"Rajdeep Sardesai joins India Today Group as Consulting Editor".India Today.11 September 2014.Retrieved21 April2021.
  5. ^Cached version ofIndus View2.1 (January 2006)The degree of Bachelor of Laws (LLB) is not awarded by Oxford University and here is a mistake for Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL), a postgraduate degree in law. All Bachelors of Arts and of Fine Art upon commencing their twenty-first term from matriculation may supplicate for the degree of Master of Arts Rajdeep Gupta
  6. ^"Rajdeep Sardesai".cricketarchive.Retrieved21 April2013.
  7. ^Pratihary, Anupam (8 December 2017)."Q&A: Dhoni is the hero of my 'Democracy's XI' - Rajdeep Sardesai".Reuters.Archived fromthe originalon 23 May 2018.Retrieved23 May2018.
  8. ^Sardesai, Rajdeep (24 October 2017)."'A new dawn in Indian cricket': Remembering Sachin Tendulkar's iconic Ranji Trophy debut ".Scroll.in.Retrieved18 December2019.
  9. ^Singh, Onkar (27 April 2005)."Why Rajdeep Sardesai quit NDTV".Rediff.Retrieved18 December2019.
  10. ^"NETWORK 18".Archived fromthe originalon 16 August 2018.Retrieved29 September2014.
  11. ^"RIL to acquire control of Network 18, Rajdeep may go".Hindustan Times.29 May 2014.Retrieved9 April2021.
  12. ^"Full text: Rajdeep Sardesai's farewell letter to IBN network".Firstpost.4 July 2014.Retrieved9 April2021.
  13. ^"Rajdeep Sardesai joins India Today Group as Consulting Editor".India Today.11 September 2014.Retrieved18 June2024.{{cite magazine}}:CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  14. ^Chowdhry, Seema (8 February 2013)."Airing both sides".Mint.Retrieved23 May2018.
  15. ^"Dr. Ishan Sardesai (The Face Centre) introduces revolutionary ENDOSPHERES THERAPY to India".Bold Outline.24 July 2023.Retrieved31 March2024.
  16. ^"The referee in town".The Hindu.10 June 2004. Archived fromthe originalon 21 November 2004.
  17. ^"Rajdeep Sardesai expresses regret for scuffle in New York".Business Standard.30 September 2014.Retrieved20 December2022.
  18. ^"Rajdeep Sardesai beaten by a group of Indians in Madison Square, New York".NDTV.30 September 2014.Retrieved20 December2020.
  19. ^"Rajdeep Sardesai slapped outside Madison Square Garden; Full details of #TruthOfShameAbroad in words of Mahendra Reddy".8 October 2014.
  20. ^"Rajdeep Sardesai, ors acquitted after issuing unconditional apology for false reporting on Sohrabuddin case".Bar and Bench - Indian Legal news.12 January 2020.Retrieved13 January2020.
  21. ^"Rajdeep Sardesai submits unconditional apology for false reporting in Sohrabuddin case".Zee News.13 January 2020.Retrieved11 June2020.
  22. ^"India Today Takes Anchor Rajdeep Sardesai Off Air, Cuts Month's Salary for Retracted Tweet".The Wire.28 January 2021.Retrieved28 January2021.
  23. ^"India Today takes Sardesai off-air, docks salary over wrong tweet".The Indian Express.29 January 2021.Retrieved29 January2021.
  24. ^"Tharoor, Sardesai, Others Booked for Sedition Over R-Day Violence".TheQuint.29 January 2021.Retrieved29 January2021.
  25. ^ab"Media Bodies Slam FIRs Against Journalists, Want Sedition Law to Be Scrapped".The Wire.31 January 2021.Retrieved1 February2021.
  26. ^"Sedition FIRs against Tharoor, journalists now in five states".The Indian Express.31 January 2021.Retrieved31 January2021.
  27. ^Achom, Debanish (31 January 2021)."Delhi Police Case Against Shashi Tharoor, Others After UP, Madhya Pradesh".NDTV.Retrieved31 January2021.
  28. ^"Journalists' Bodies Slam Sedition FIRs Against Editors, Reporters for Farmers' Rally Coverage".The Wire.29 January 2021.Retrieved1 February2021.
  29. ^"Tractor rally: Editors Guild of India sound alarm at sedition case on journalists".The Telegraph.21 January 2021.Retrieved1 February2021.
  30. ^"India Today's Rajdeep Sardesai bags prestigious Prem Bhatia Award for political reporting".India Today.12 August 2019.Retrieved21 April2021.
  31. ^"Award Winners".Archived fromthe originalon 28 January 2015.Retrieved18 December2019.
  32. ^"India Today Group wins big at E NBA awards".India Today.23 February 2020.Retrieved2 March2020.
  33. ^"Review: 2019: How Modi Won India by Rajdeep Sardesai".31 January 2020.Retrieved1 May2020.
  34. ^2019 Modi Ki Jeet.ASIN8194873622.
  35. ^Sardesai, Rajdeep (1 November 2014).The Election That Changed India 2014.Viking.ASIN0670087904.
  36. ^2014 Chunav: Jisne Bharat Ko Badal Diya.ASIN9351864200.
  37. ^"MS Dhoni: Indian cricket's first mega-brand".ESPNcricinfo.25 October 2017.Retrieved18 December2019.
  38. ^Team Loktantra Bhartiya Cricket Ki Shandar Kahani.ASIN9387889920.
  39. ^Real Heroes.ASIN8174368396.

External links[edit]

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