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Rajdeep Sardesai (born 24 May 1965) is an Indian news anchor, reporter, journalist and author. He is a consulting editor and an anchor of
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. He was the Editor-in-Chief of
Global Broadcast News TV18 Broadcast Limited (formerly Global Broadcast News and IBN18 Broadcast Limited) is an Indian entity belonging to Network18 Group based in Mumbai. TV18 owns and operates various national channels in separate partnerships with NBCUniversal ...
, that included
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, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat, before resigning in July 2014.


Early life

Sardesai was born in Ahmedabad,
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to a
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father and a Gujarati mother. His father,
Dilip Sardesai Dilip Narayan Sardesai (; 8 August 1940 – 2 July 2007) was an Indian international cricketer. He played Tests for the Indian national team as a batsman, the first Goa-born cricketer to play for India, and was often regarded as one of India ...
, was a former Indian
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er and his mother, Nandini, is an activist in
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and former head of the Department of Sociology at
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. He completed his schooling up to ICSE from the Campion School,
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, and did two years of
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. Thereafter he graduated in economics from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, St. Xavier's College,
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. He then went to
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, earning the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in jurisprudence (promoted to
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by seniority) and
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. While at Oxford he made six
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appearances for
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and one for a combined Oxford and
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side against the 1987 Pakistani touring team. He was awarded a cricket
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at Oxford.


Career

Sardesai worked with ''
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'' 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 (
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). 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 TV18 Broadcast Limited (formerly Global Broadcast News and IBN18 Broadcast Limited) is an Indian entity belonging to Network18 Group based in Mumbai. TV18 owns and operates various national channels in separate partnerships with NBCUniversal ...
(GBN), in collaboration with the American giant CNN and
Raghav Bahl Raghav Bahl is an Indian businessman, a serial entrepreneur, and an investor best known for his past ownership of several television channels, including TV18 India. He was the Founding/Controlling shareholder & managing director of Network18 Gr ...
's
TV18 TV18 Broadcast Limited (formerly Global Broadcast News and IBN18 Broadcast Limited) is an Indian entity belonging to Network18 Group based in Mumbai. TV18 owns and operates various national channels in separate partnerships with NBCUniversal ...
. The latter broadcasts the Indian Edition (in English) of
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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 CNN-News18 (originally CNN-IBN) is an Indian English-language news television channel founded by Raghav Bahl based in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India. It is currently co-owned by Network18 Group and Warner Bros. Discovery. CNN provides interna ...
. It went on air on 17 December 2005.
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has also come under this umbrella after Sardesai's company bought a 46 percent 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 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.


Personal life

He is married to journalist and author
Sagarika Ghose Sagarika Ghose (born 8 November 1964) is an Indian journalist, columnist and author. She has been a journalist since 1991 and has worked at ''The Times of India'', ''Outlook'' and ''The Indian Express''. She was a prime time anchor for BBC Wor ...
. Sardesai and Ghose have two children, son Ishan, and daughter Tarini.


Controversy

On 30 September 2014, Sardesai was allegedly heckled by a group of Indians in the
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, however, the person representing the group denied these allegations and claimed that Rajdeep "begun the physical assault". Sardesai and others were acquitted of defamation by a Hyderabad court in November 2019 after issuing an unconditional apology to IPS officer Rajiv Trivedi for false reporting on his role in the death of Sohrabuddin Sheikh. In January 2021, Sardesai was taken off TV for two weeks by
India Today ''India Today'' is a weekly Indian English-language news magazine published by Living Media India Limited. It is the most widely circulated magazine in India, with a readership of close to 8 million. In 2014, ''India Today'' launched a new on ...
while also cutting his monthly salary for alleging in a retracted tweet that Navreet Singh was killed in a police shooting during
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.
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claimed that his tweet on the cause of death was not accurate and referred to the CCTV footage of the incident of Singh's death. 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. Several journalists and politicians who reported about the
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were charged with sedition by the Delhi police and 5 state police in the
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-ruled states. Siddharth Varadarajan called the police FIRs "malicious prosecution". 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. 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".


Awards

* The
Padma Shri Padma Shri (IAST: ''padma śrī''), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan. Instituted on 2 January 1954, the award is confe ...
, 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 The Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards (RNG Awards) are one of the awards in India in the field of journalism. Named after Ramnath Goenka, the awards have been held annually since 2006, with the 12th edition being held in 2017. The awa ...
for 2006 * In ENBA award 2020 Rajdeep Sardesai received lifetime achievement award.


Books

*''2019: How Modi Won India'' *2019 Modi Ki Jeet *''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 *2014 Chunav : Jisne Bharat Ko Badal Diya *''Democracy's XI'', published by Juggernaut Books *Team Loktantra Bhartiya Cricket Ki Shandar Kahani *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 (). The book is about the
2002 Gujarat riots The 2002 Gujarat riots, also known as the 2002 Gujarat violence, was a three-day period of inter-communal violence in the western Indian state of Gujarat. The burning of a train in Godhra on 27 February 2002, which caused the deaths of 58 Hin ...
. *Real Heroes


References


External links

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