Sagarika Ghose
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 | 8 November 1964 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 |
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Sagarika Ghose (Bengali pronunciation: [ʃagorika ɡʱoʃ]; born 8 November 1964) is an Indian Member of Parliament, journalist, columnist and author. She has been a journalist since 1991 and has worked at The Times of India, Outlook and The Indian Express. She was a prime time anchor for BBC World on Question Time India and on the news network CNN-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 of Indira Gandhi, Indira: India's Most Powerful Prime Minister. She worked as Consulting Editor of The Times of India from 2014 to 2020. In 2022, her biography of former Indian Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee was released.