Sagarika Ghose: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
Line 12: | Line 12: | ||
* The Gin Drinkers (1998) |
* The Gin Drinkers (1998) |
||
* Blind Faith (2006) |
* Blind Faith (2006) |
||
== See also == |
|||
[[Rajdeep Sardesai]] |
|||
[[List of Kayasthas]] |
|||
==External links== |
==External links== |
Revision as of 05:33, 23 August 2007
Sagarika Ghose is an Indian journalist, author and television personality.
Ghose received her bachelor's degree in history from St. Stephen's College, Delhi. A recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship, she gained a bachelor's in modern history from Magdalen College and an M.Phil from St Antony's College. She has been a journalist in India since 1991 and has worked at the The Times Of India, Outlook magazine and The Indian Express. She is currently (2006) senior editor and prime time anchor on the news network CNN-IBN.
In 2004 she became the first woman to anchor the popular BBC programme Question Time India. She is also the author of the novel The Gin Drinkers, published in 1998. Her second novel Blind Faith was published in 2006 by HarperCollins.
She is married to a well-known television personality from Maharashtra, Rajdeep Sardesai, son of cricketer Dileep Sardesai, and has two children, Ishan and Tarini.
She is the daughter of Bhaskar Ghose, erstwhile director of Doordarshan, the Indian public television network. Her two illustrious aunts include Ruma Pal, former justice of the Supreme Court and Arundhati Ghose, former ambassador and diplomat.
Bibliography
- The Gin Drinkers (1998)
- Blind Faith (2006)
See also