Niharika Desai (born c. 1977) is a television editor and a VJ on

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. She grew up in

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, and graduated from the

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. In 2024 she won the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Reality Programs for directing “Happiness is a Bottle of Cod Liver Oil” from ''Rainn Wilson and the Geography of Bliss''.

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* * 1970s births 21st-century American women musicians American Hindus American musicians of Indian descent American television personalities American women musicians of Indian descent Directors Guild of America Award winners Gujarati people Living people Place of birth missing (living people) University of Pennsylvania alumni Year of birth missing (living people) {{US-tv-bio-stub