Rajdeep Sardesari is a senior journalist, author, tv news presenter. Currently, the consulting editor and lead news anchor of the India Today group, he has nearly three decades of experience in print and TV journalism. He was the founder editor of IBN 18 network which included CNN IBN, IBN 7 and IBN Lokmat. Prior to that, he was Managing Editor of both NDTV 24X7 and NDTV India and was responsible for overseeing the news policy for both the channels. He has also worked with The Times of India for six years. His book 2014: the election that changed India is a national best seller that has been translated into half a dozen languages and his second book, Democracy’s Eleven was shortlisted by MCC Lords as the cricket book of the year. In 2008, he was granted the Padma Shri. He won the Journalist of the Year grant and won the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Awards in 2007.