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Rajdeep Sardesai
Born	24 May 1965 (age 44); Gujarat
Residence	New Delhi
Nationality	Indian
Occupation	Journalist
Employer	TV 18
Home town	New Delhi
Known for	Anchoring and Reporting
Religious beliefs	Hindu
Spouse(s)	Sagarika Ghose
Children	2

Rajdeep Sardesai (Hindi: राजदीप सरदेसाई) (born 24 May 1965) is an Indian journalist, political commentator and news presenter.

[edit] Biography

Rajdeep Sardesai was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat to a Goan father, former Indian Test cricketer Dilip Sardesai and a Maharashtrian mother, Nandini Sardesai, an activist in Mumbai and former head of the Department of Sociology at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai.

[edit] Education

He attended the Cathedral and John Connon School and Campion School in Mumbai and completed bachelor's course in Economics from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. He then studied at University College, Oxford, taking the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Bachelor of Civil Law.^[1]

[edit] Career

Rajdeep Sardesai entered television journalism in 1994 as Political Editor, New Delhi Television (NDTV.) He was particularly recognised for his coverage of the Gujarat riots. Rajdeep Sardesai later quit NDTV 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 of CNBC called CNBC-TV18, the Hindi consumer channel, CNBC Awaaz and an international channel, SAW. The new channel with Rajdeep as the Editor-in-Chief has been named CNN-IBN. It went on air on 17 December 2005. Channel 7 has also come under this umbrella after Rajdeep's company bought a 46 percent stake in the channel. Channel 7 has since been renamed IBN-7.

[edit] Affiliations

Rajdeep Sardesai is presently the president of Editors Guild of India. He is also a member of the Population Council and the Press Club of India. He writes columns for leading English dailies.

[edit] Family

He is married to Sagarika Ghose a journalist and fellow senior editor and anchor at CNN-IBN, whom he met while they were both students at Oxford University. Love bloomed in their Times of India days and they got married in 1994. They have two children, son Ishan (14) and daughter Tarini (12).

[edit] References

^ Cached version of Indus View 2.1 (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]

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[0] Cached version of Indus View 2.1 (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]

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