Rajdeep Sardesai Rajdeep Sardesai

Rajdeep Sardesai has joined the India Today Group as Consulting Editor.

Rajdeep has been founding member of two TV networks. He started his television career in 1994 and was a founding member of NDTV and, subsequently, CNN-IBN. Prior to TV, he worked with the Times of India for six years and was the city editor of the newspaper's Mumbai edition. Rajdeep was the Editor-in-Chief of IBN18 Network heading CNN-IBN, IBN-7 and IBN-Lokmat for nine years. He has just finished his first book based on the historic 2014 elections. Rajdeep has won several national and international awards for journalism, including the Padma Shri in 2008.

With 1.52 million followers on Twitter, one of the largest for any news personality, Rajdeep says, "When not chained to the news, I watch sports, read, write, sleep and enjoy family holidays."

Welcoming him to the group, India Today Group Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Aroon Purie said Rajdeep has been an asset to whichever team he has belonged to, including the cricketing ones. "Great to have him with us. I know he will hit the ball out of the park for Team India Today." In his new innings, Rajdeep will be doing a marquee show on Headlines Today and contribute to the revamp of the channel.