Rajdeep Sardesai

23 JULY | 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM

JYOTHI HALL, Southern Star, Mysuru

Rajdeep Sardesai, 55, is an award-winning senior journalist, author, tv news presenter. His latest book 2019: How Modi won India is a national best seller as was his previous book 2014: The Election that changed India which has been translated into half a dozen languages, his book Democracy’s Eleven’: The Great Story of Indian cricket was shortlisted by MCC Lords as cricket book of the year in 2017-18.
Currently the consulting editor and lead news anchor of the India Today group, he has over three decades of journalistic experience in print and television. He was the founder editor of the IBN 18 network which included CNN IBN, IBN 7 and IBN Lokmat. Prior to that, he was Managing Editor of both NDTV 24X7 and NDTV India and was responsible for overseeing the news policy for both the channels.
He won the prestigious Padma Shri for Journalism in 2008, the International Broadcasters award for coverage of the 2002 Gujarat riots, the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism award in 2007, the 2019 Prem Bhatia award for political journalism for analysis of the 2019 elections, Asian Television award. In 2020, he was conferred with the Lifetime achievement award at the annual news broadcasting awards, He has been the President of the Editors Guild of India and was also chosen as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum. He writes regularly and extensively in periodicals and social media.