Sagarika Ghose Biography and latest books by Sagarika Ghose

Sagarika Ghose (born 8 November 1964) is an Indian journalist, author and television anchor. Ghose received her bachelor\'s degree in History from St. Stephen\'s College, Delhi. A recipient of the Rhodes Scholarship, she has a Bachelor\'s in Modern History from Magdalen College and an M.Phil from St Antony\'s College, Oxford. She has been a journalist in India since 1991 and has worked at The Times Of India, Outlook magazine and The Indian Express. She is currently (2010) the Deputy Editor and a prime time anchor on the news network CNN-IBN. She was awarded the Gr8-ITA award for Excellence in Journalism in 2009. In 2006 she received an Excellence in Journalism Award from the FICCI. She has reported extensively from the field in general elections, feature stories as well as from Pakistan, Sri Lanka and Bhutan and has had a popular editorial column first in the Indian Express, then in the Hindustan Times.

In 2004 she became the first woman to anchor the popular BBC show 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 Harper Collins.

She is married to one of India\'s leading journalists Rajdeep Sardesai, son of cricketer Dileep Sardesai, and has two children, Ishan and Tarini. She is the daughter of Bhaskar Ghose, erstwhile Director General of Doordarshan, the Indian public television network. Her two aunts include Ruma Pal, former justice of the Supreme Court of India and Arundhati Ghose, former ambassador and diplomat.

Sagarika Ghose was born and brought up in Delhi and educated at the Loretto convents in Delhi and Calcutta. She holds graduate degrees in History from St. Stephen’s, Delhi and Oxford University, England.

She is a Senior Editor with the Indian Express, and prior to that has worked as a journalist for The Times of India and Outlook.

Works

The Gin Drinkers (1998)

The novel The Gin Drinkers gives its readers a glimpse of life among the rich and educated elite India and how the more dynamic and aggressive working population now pose a threat to their own life. Will this elite group continue to fade way, drowning their troubles in gin?

Blind Faith (2006)

The novel maps the journey of two women, Mia, a TV journalist based in London, who is struggling to find a way to cope with her father\'s suicide, and Vik\'s mother, Indi, a brilliant, beautiful, promiscuous hotel owner in Goa who is bitter about a rare condition that has caused her to go blind. In doing so, it sets up the conflict between orthodox religion and the sexual woman, something Sagarika felt strongly about.

Sagarika Ghose says: “Gin Drinkers was a much younger book, written by a much younger person. But what is common to both the books is that they are political in nature."