Savio Oliver Ignatius Rodrigues (born 31 July 1976) is an Indian journalist, writer, entrepreneur, and politician based in

Velim, Goa Velim (), ( Konkani: ''Velle''), formerly Velliapura, is a large village situated in Salcete, neighbouring Quepem ''taluka'' and falls under South Goa district, in the Indian coastal state of Goa. It has access to the Arabian Sea via the Sal r ...

. He is the founder and

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of ''Goa Chronicle'', a

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. Rodrigues is a

Bharatiya Janata Party, Goa Bharatiya Janata Party is the affiliate of Bharatiya Janata Party for the state of Goa. The party appointed Sadanand Tanavade as the president of the BJP Goa on 12 January 2020 who took over from Vinay Dinu Tendulkar. Pramod Sawant was sworn in a ...

(BJP) leader and former BJP state

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representing the

Velim Assembly constituency Velim Assembly constituency is one of the 40 Goa Legislative Assembly constituencies of the state of Goa in southern India. Velim is also one of the 20 constituencies falling under the South Goa Lok Sabha constituency and includes villages and ...

Early life

Savio Oliver Ignatius Rodrigues was born on 31 July 1976 in

Bombay Mumbai (, ; also known as Bombay — the official name until 1995) is the capital city of the Indian state of Maharashtra and the ''de facto'' financial centre of India. According to the United Nations, as of 2018, Mumbai is the second- ...

(now Mumbai) to Ignatius Rosario Rodrigues into a

Christian Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρι ...

family of

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ancestry. He completed his graduation in

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and

Bachelor of Laws Bachelor of Laws ( la, Legum Baccalaureus; LL.B.) is an undergraduate law degree in the United Kingdom and most common law jurisdictions. Bachelor of Laws is also the name of the law degree awarded by universities in the People's Republic of Chi ...

(B.A LL.B) (first year) from

Government Law College, Mumbai The Government Law College, Mumbai, (GLC Mumbai), founded in 1855, is the one of the oldest law schools in Asia. The college, affiliated to the University of Mumbai, is run by the Government of Maharashtra. Bal Gangadhar Tilak ,Pratibha Pa ...

in 2000. Rodrigues has also completed an

online course Educational technology (commonly abbreviated as edutech, or edtech) is the combined use of computer hardware, software, and educational theory and practice to facilitate learning. When referred to with its abbreviation, edtech, it often refers ...

from

Harvard University Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of higher le ...

on the subjects, religion, conflict, and peace and was also pursuing a 7-course program on "World Religions Through Their Scriptures" from the same university in 2022.

Career

Rodrigues began his career at the age of 20 in the fields of

journalism Journalism is the production and distribution of reports on the interaction of events, facts, ideas, and people that are the "news of the day" and that informs society to at least some degree. The word, a noun, applies to the occupation (profes ...

, communications and

entrepreneurship Entrepreneurship is the creation or extraction of economic value. With this definition, entrepreneurship is viewed as change, generally entailing risk beyond what is normally encountered in starting a business, which may include other values th ...

. During his early years he built his career in media,

environmental sciences Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physics, biology, and geography (including ecology, chemistry, plant science, zoology, mineralogy, oceanography, limnology, soil science, geology and physical geo ...

and technology in India. His business ventures include ''Goa Chronicle'' , Kaydence Media Ventures, ''Incubees'', and Kianna Media Ventures. During its early years, ''Goa Chronicle'', now owned by Kaydence Media Ventures and a part of ITV Network Group found itself struggling in the state of

Goa Goa () is a state on the southwestern coast of India within the Konkan region, geographically separated from the Deccan highlands by the Western Ghats. It is located between the Indian states of Maharashtra to the north and Karnataka to the ...

. Rodrigues was also a

television host A television presenter (or television host, some become a "television personality") is a person who introduces, hosts television programs, often serving as a mediator for the program and the audience. Nowadays, it is common for people who garner ...

of the TV show, ''The Goa Chronicle Show'' (2021) which aired on

NewsX ITV Network, (also Information TV Pvt Ltd), is a media group founded, owned and promoted by Kartikeya Sharma, the son of Venod Sharma, a politician. Presently, it owns 12 news channels, a Hindi daily, '' Aaj Samaj, daily newspaper, The Dail ...

. He was also a

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for the

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The Indian Express ''The Indian Express'' is an English-language Indian daily newspaper founded in 1932. It is published in Mumbai by the Indian Express Group. In 1999, eight years after the group's founder Ramnath Goenka's death in 1991, the group was split betw ...

'' and a

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