Sagarika Ghose Biography and Career
Sagarika Ghose is an Indian journalist, columnist and author. She was born on 8 November 1964. She has been a journalist since 1991 and has worked at The Times of India, Outlook and The Indian Express. In this article we are going to talk about the biography, career, notable works, and family of Sagarika Ghose so read the article till the end.
She was a prime-time anchor for BBC World on Question Time India and on the news network CNN-IBN, also being the deputy editor for the latter. Ghose has won several awards in journalism and is the author of two novels, as well as the biography of Indira Gandhi, Indira: India’s Most Powerful Prime Minister. Sagarika Ghose is currently the consulting editor of The Times of India. In 2022, her biography of former Indian Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was released
Short biography of Sagarika Ghose
Sagarika is the daughter of Bhaskar Ghose, formerly of the Indian Administrative Service 1960 batch, erstwhile Director General of Doordarshan, the Indian public television network.
Her two aunts include Arundhati Ghose, former ambassador and diplomat and Ruma Pal, former justice of the Supreme Court of India. She is married to journalist and news anchor Rajdeep Sardesai, the son of former Indian test cricketer Dilip Sardesai. Rajdeep and Sagarika have two children, son Ishan, and daughter Tarini.
Sagarika Ghose received her bachelor’s degree in History from St. Stephen’s College, Delhi. A recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship in 1987, she has a Bachelor’s in Modern History from Magdalen College and an M.Phil. from St Antony’s College, Oxford.
Career
Since 1991, Sagarika Ghose has worked as a journalist at The Times Of India, Outlook magazine and The Indian Express and was deputy editor and prime time anchor on the news network CNN-IBN. Ghose resigned as deputy editor of CNN-IBN in July 2014.
In 2004, she became the first woman to host Question Time India. She was the deputy editor and a prime-time anchor on the news network CNN-IBN. Her writings and broadcasts have earned her popularity and also criticism from right-wing viewers.
Ghose’s Twitter interview with Arvind Kejriwal of the Aam Aadmi Party in 2013 became the first instance of an Indian politician giving a social media interview prior to the polls. Ghose resigned from CNN-IBN on 5 July 2014 after the network was acquired by the Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries ltd. She was deputy editor of the channel.
Sagarika Ghose is the author of two novels, The Gin Drinkers, published in 1998, and Blind Faith, in 2004. The Gin Drinkers was also published in the Netherlands.
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Random biography facts about Sagarika Ghose
In her 2018 non-fiction book, Why I Am A Liberal: A Manifesto For Indians Who Believe in Individual Freedom, Ghose describes herself as a liberal who believes in rule of law, limited government, robust institutions and individual liberty.
Ghose propounds the thesis that although the republic of India was founded as a liberal democracy in 1947.
Ghose also published a biography of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, Indira: India’s Most Powerful Prime Minister (Juggernaut Books) in 2017. The biography is slated to be made into a film.
In 2022 her biography of former Indian Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was released.
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