Sagarika Ghose | |
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Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha | |
Assumed office 3 April 2024 | |
Preceded by | Abir Biswas |
Constituency | West Bengal |
Personal details | |
Born | (1964-11-08)8 November 1964 (age 60) New Delhi,India |
Political party | Trinamool Congress (since 2024) |
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Relatives | Dilip Sardesai (father-in-law) Arundhati Ghose (aunt) Ruma Pal (aunt) Sanjay Ghose (cousin) |
Education | St. Stephen's College, Delhi (BA) Magdalen College, Oxford (BA) St Antony's College, Oxford (MPhil) |
Occupation | |
Years active | 1991-present |
Notable work | Indira: India's Most Powerful Prime Minister |
Spouse | |
Sagarika Ghose (Bengali pronunciation:[ʃagorikaɡʱoʃ]; born 8 November 1964) is an Indian Member of Parliament,journalist, columnist and author.[1][2][3] She has been a journalist since 1991 and has worked atThe Times of India,Outlook andThe Indian Express. She was a prime time anchor forBBC World onQuestion Time India and on the news networkCNN-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 ofIndira Gandhi,Indira: India's Most Powerful Prime Minister. She worked as Consulting Editor ofThe Times of India from 2014 to 2020.[4] In 2022, her biography of former Indian Prime Minister,Atal Bihari Vajpayee was released.[5]
Ghose studied fromDelhi Public School, R. K. Puram and received her BAHistory fromSt. Stephen's College, Delhi. Arecipient of theRhodes Scholarship in 1987, she has a BAModern History fromMagdalen College and an MPhil fromSt Antony's College, Oxford.[6]
Since 1991, she has worked as a journalist atThe Times Of India,Outlook magazine andThe Indian Express and was deputy editor and prime time anchor on the news networkCNN-IBN.[7][8][9] Ghose resigned as deputy editor ofCNN-IBN in July 2014.[10]
In 2004, she became the first woman to hostQuestion Time India.[11] She was the deputy editor and a prime time anchor on the news networkCNN-IBN.[8][9] Her writings and broadcasts have earned her popularity and also criticism from right-wing viewers.[12][13]
Ghose's Twitter interview withArvind Kejriwal of theAam Aadmi Party in 2013 became the first instance of an Indian politician giving a social media interview prior to the polls.[14] Ghose resigned fromCNN-IBN on 5 July 2014 after the network was acquired by theMukesh Ambani-ledReliance Industries ltd. She was deputy editor of the channel.[15][16]
Her showQuestion Time Didi, an audience based interaction with West Bengal chief ministerMamata Banerjee and students, from which Banerjee famously stormed out mid-way, received the NT Award for Best Public Debate Show in 2013.[17] She was awarded theGr8-ITA award for Excellence in Journalism in 2009.[citation needed] Ghose was awarded an Excellence in Journalism Award (Aparajita Award) fromFICCI Ladies Organisation in 2005.[citation needed] In 2012 she received the CF Andrews Award for Distinguished Alumnus from St Stephen's College.[18]In 2013, Ghose received the ITA Best Anchor Award from the Indian Television Academy (ITA).[19] In 2014, The Rhodes Project included Ghose on a list of 13 famous women Rhodes Scholars.[20] In 2017 Ghose was awarded the C.H.Mohammed Koya National Award for journalism.[21]
Ghose is the author of two novels,The Gin Drinkers, published in 1998, andBlind Faith, in 2004.The Gin Drinkers was also published in the Netherlands.[22] Ghose also published a biography of former Indian Prime MinisterIndira Gandhi,Indira: India's Most Powerful Prime Minister (Juggernaut Books) in 2017.[23] The biography is slated to be made into a film.[24] In 2022 her biography of former Indian Prime Minister,Atal Bihari Vajpayee was released.[5]
In her 2018 non-fiction book,Why I Am A Liberal: A Manifesto For Indians Who Believe in Individual Freedom,[11][25][26] 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, subsequent Indian governments throughout the post-Independence period have sought to attack individual liberty and vastly increase the powers of the government, or the powers of what she calls the Indian 'Big State'.
She is the daughter ofBhaskar Ghose, formerly of the Indian Administrative Service 1960 batch, erstwhile Director General ofDoordarshan, the Indian public television network.[11] Her two aunts includeArundhati Ghose, former ambassador and diplomat andRuma Pal, former justice of theSupreme Court of India. She is married to journalist and news anchorRajdeep Sardesai, the son of former Indian test cricketerDilip Sardesai. Rajdeep and Sagarika have two children, son Dr. Ishan Sardesai and daughter Tarini Sardesai,advocate.[27]
Sagarika Ghose joined theAll India Trinamool Congress Party on 11 February 2024,[28] and was elected as the party's candidate to theRajya Sabha in 2024.[29]
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