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Indian news anchor and author

Rajdeep Sardesai (born 24 May 1965) is an Indian news anchor, reporter, journalist and author. He is a consulting editor and anchor of India Today Television. He was the Editor-in-Chief of Global Broadcast News, that included CNN-IBN, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat, before resigning in July 2014.

Early life

Sardesai was born in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, to a Goan father and a Gujarati mother. His father, Dilip Sardesai, was a former Indian Test cricketer and his mother, Nandini, is an activist in Mumbai and former head of the Department of Sociology at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. He completed his schooling up to ICSE from the Campion School, Mumbai, and did two years of ISC at The Cathedral & John Connon School, Mumbai. Thereafter he graduated in economics from St. Xavier's College, Mumbai. He then went to University College, Oxford, earning the degrees of Bachelor of Arts in jurisprudence (promoted to Master of Arts by seniority) and Bachelor of Civil Law.

While at Oxford he made six first-class cricket appearances for Oxford University and one for a combined Oxford and Cambridge side against the 1987 Pakistani touring team. He was awarded a cricket Blue at Oxford.

Career

Sardesai worked with The Times of India 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 (NDTV). 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 (GBN), in collaboration with the American giant CNN and Raghav Bahl's TV18. The latter broadcasts the Indian Edition (in English) of CN

Rajdeep is a self-made actor with stunning acting skills and guy next door type roles. His career in the industry began as a DJ. He was famous at Delhi, Kolkata, and Dhaka clubs. After struggling and attending auditions, he got into a Bengali soap ‘Ogo Bodhu Sundori’ as ‘Ishaan Lahiri’- the lead role in 2009. But his family, on the other hand, wanted him to settle for a regular job after doing an MBA. He has worked in several Bengali daily soaps. He had played leading roles in many Bengali TV serials. He even went for some negative roles in a few TV Shows.

His career as a film actor started in 2012 via a Bengali film ‘Damadol.’ Later on, he worked in many other Bengali movies. He has won awards like ‘Television Teleacademy’ and ‘Best Actor Teleacademy’ for the best debutant actor. He acted in one of the episodes of Pyaar ka The End- his first Hindi language TV performance. He has also worked in many web series and also gave a go on advertisements. He even worked for national ad campaigns of renowned bands, and in addition to this, he is the face of the Uber India campaign 2016.