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== Controversies ==
== Controversies ==
On 28th Sept 2014, few months after becoming Indian Prime Minister, [[Narendra Modi]] addressed [[Indian diaspora]] at a historic speech at [[Madison Square Garden]] in [[New York City]]<ref>{{cite web | url =http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/nyregion/at-madison-square-garden-chants-cheers-and-roars-for-modi.html?_r=0 | title = At Madison Square Garden, Chants, Cheers and Roars for Modi
On 28th Sept 2014, few months after becoming Indian Prime Minister, [[Narendra Modi]] addressed [[Indian diaspora]] at a historic speech at [[Madison Square Garden]] in [[New York City]]<ref>{{cite web | url =http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/29/nyregion/at-madison-square-garden-chants-cheers-and-roars-for-modi.html?_r=0 | title = At Madison Square Garden, Chants, Cheers and Roars for Modi
| publisher = New York Times }}</ref>. Large crowd of over 19,000 bought tickets to attend this sold-out event. Thousands more watched the event's live telecast in nearby [[Times Square]]. The crowds were ecstatic by Narendra Modi hour long speech in Hindi. After Modi's speech got over, Rajdeep, with a long history of motivated anti-Modi journalism, started to interview the crowds exiting from the Madison Square Garden. On the 34th Street, while the crowds exiting venue on the 34th Street were chanting "Modi .. Modi", Rajdeep began doing his "exit-interviews" of some of the attendees. This coverage by Rajdeep was being broadcast live in India and unedited raw footage is available in Youtube <ref>{{ cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nAbMrW-u0U | title=Unedited raw footage of Rajdeep Sardesai Madison Square Garden incident}}</ref>. The raw footage shows Rajdeep continuing his anti-Modi slant during his exit-interviews of the attendees. The successful Modi event and the pro-Modi chanting by the crowd visibly agitates Rajdeep. He continues exit-interviews of individuals with a pronounced anti-Modi slant. Not pleased with Rajdeep's negative approach, few in the crowd are heard questioning Rajdeep's motivation for anti-Modi journalism. Many in the crowd start to boo Rajdeep. Rajeev is seen visibly getting intolerant of being booed by the exiting crowd. Rajdeep continues his telecast slant by describing the crowd as "a frenzied Narendra Modi crowd". Even while knowing that his coverage was being telecast live in India, and in a fit of rage, Rajdeep says on camera "he will not hold back". He is seen as taking matters in his own hands by picking fist fights with the individuals. In the raw footage, Rajdeep is seen as loosing his composure and initiating a fist-fight with the few individuals in the crowd chanting pro-Modi slogans. Angry Rajdeep is seen as removing his jacket as he tries to rough up the individuals booing him. Rajdeep repeats this act of fist fights with few different individuals in the crowd. Finally, some people in the crowd intervene and peace is restored. This entire episode where Rajdeep visibly gets irritated by pro-Modi slogans, loses his composure and initiates fist-fights without any physical provocation by the crowd was telecast live in India. After the incident, instead of apologizing to the individuals whom he initiated fist fights and threatened, Rajdeep tweeted claiming to be the victim of abuse. Some English language India media houses in India towed Rajdeep's narrative. [[NDTV]] reported this incident as Rajdeep was abused by the mob - while the entire raw footage of this episode clearly shows Rajdeep initiating fist fights <ref>{{cite web | url=http://guruprasad.net/posts/rajdeep-sardesai-provoked-crowd-attacked-nri-played-victim-game-new-york/ | | title = How Rajdeep Sardesai provoked crowd, attacked NRI & played victim game in New York | publisher = Guruprasad's Portal }}</ref> <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nAbMrW-u0U]</ref>. To support the narrative that Rajdeep was the victim and Rajdeep was abused by frenzied crowd, several edited versions of raw footage have been uploaded on YouTube with confusing titles portraying Rajdeep as the victim.
| publisher = New York Times }}</ref>. Large crowd of over 19,000 bought tickets to attend this sold-out event. Thousands more watched the event's live telecast in nearby [[Times Square]]. The crowds were ecstatic by Narendra Modi hour long speech in Hindi. After Modi's speech got over, Rajdeep, with a long history of motivated anti-Modi journalism, started to interview the crowds exiting from the Madison Square Garden. On the 34th Street, while the crowds exiting venue were chanting "Modi .. Modi", Rajdeep started doing "exit-interviews". This exit-interview coverage by Rajdeep was being broadcast live in India. Unedited raw footage is available in Youtube <ref>{{ cite web | url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nAbMrW-u0U | title=Unedited raw footage of Rajdeep Sardesai Madison Square Garden incident}}</ref>. The raw footage shows Rajdeep has anti-Modi slant during his exit-interviews. The raw footage shows that successful Modi event and the pro-Modi chanting by the crowd visibly irritates Rajdeep. Visibly angry Rajdeep continues exit-interviews with a pronounced anti-Modi slant. Not pleased with Rajdeep's negative approach, few in the crowd are heard questioning Rajdeep's motivation for anti-Modi journalism. Many in the crowd are seen to start to boo Rajdeep. Rajdeep gets intolerant of being booed by the crowd. Still Rajdeep is seen continuing his telecast - describing the crowd as "a frenzied Narendra Modi crowd". Even when knowing he is on live TV in India, in a fit of rage, Rajdeep says on camera "he will not hold back". He is seen as taking matters in his own hands by initiating fist fights with the individuals. In the raw footage, angry Rajdeep is seen as removing his own jacket so he can fight better by roughing up the individuals booing him. Rajdeep repeats this act of fist fights with several individuals booing him. Finally, some people in the crowd intervene and peace is restored.
This entire episode where Rajdeep visibly gets irritated by pro-Modi slogans, loses his composure and initiates fist-fights without any physical provocation by the crowd was telecast live in India. However after the incident, Rajdeep tweeted claiming to be the victim of abuse. Some English language media houses in India towed Rajdeep's narrative of being the victim. [[NDTV]] reported this incident as Rajdeep was abused by the mob. Bloggers reported how Rajdeep provoked the crowd, initiated physical attacks & instead of apologizing to the individuals whom he initiated fist fights and threatened, Rajdeep played victim card <ref>{{cite web | url=http://guruprasad.net/posts/rajdeep-sardesai-provoked-crowd-attacked-nri-played-victim-game-new-york/ | | title = How Rajdeep Sardesai provoked crowd, attacked NRI & played victim game in New York | publisher = Guruprasad's Portal }}</ref> <ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nAbMrW-u0U]</ref>. To support Rajdeep's narrative of being the victim of abuse by frenzied crowd, several edited versions of raw footage have also been uploaded on YouTube with confusing titles claiming Rajdeep as the victim.




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Rajdeep Sardesai
Born
Rajdeep Dilip Sardesai

(1965-05-24) 24 May 1965 (age 59)
Mumbai, India
NationalityIndian
EducationSt. Xavier's College
University College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Current: Consulting editor at India Today group. Former News Anchor & Editor-in-chief of IBN18 Network
Resigned in July,2014[1]
Years active1988 – present
Notable creditIndia at 9
SpouseSagarika Ghose
ChildrenIshan (son) and Tarini (daughter)

Rajdeep Sardesai (born 24 May 1965) is an Indian news anchor and author.[2] Sardesai is currently a consulting editor at the India Today group and will be doing a marquee show for Headlines Today.[3][4] He was the Editor-in-Chief of IBN18 Network, that includes CNN-IBN, IBN7 and IBN-Lokmat from where he left in July 2014.

He is married to journalist and author Sagarika Ghose.

Early life

Rajdeep Sardesai's father, Dilip Sardesai, was a former Indian test cricketer.

Education

The son of the Indian Test cricketer Dilip Sardesai, he completed his schooling up to ICSE from the Campion School in Mumbai, did two years of ISC from The Cathedral & John Connon School, Mumbai, and completed a bachelor's course in Economics from St. Xavier's College. He then went to University College, Oxford, getting the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Master of Arts, and Bachelor of Civil Law.[5] While at Oxford he made six first-class cricket appearances for Oxford University and one for a combined Oxford and Cambridge side against the 1987 Pakistani touring team.[6] He was awarded a cricket Blue.

Career

Rajdeep Sardesai has worked with The Times of India for six years and was the city editor of its Mumbai edition. He entered television journalism in 1994 as Political Editor of New Delhi Television (NDTV). He was the Managing Editor of both NDTV 24X7 and NDTV India and was responsible for overseeing the news policy for both the channels. He hosted popular show like 'The Big Fight' at NDTV. He later quit NDTV to start his own company, Global Broadcast News (GBN), in collaboration with the American giant CNN and Raghav Bahl's TV18.[7] The latter broadcasts the Indian Edition of CNBC called CNBC-TV18, the Hindi consumer channel, CNBC Awaaz and an international channel, SAW. The new channel with Sardesai as the Editor-in-Chief has been named CNN-IBN. It went on air on 17 December 2005. Channel 7 has also come under this umbrella after Sardesai's company bought a 46 percent stake in the channel. Channel 7 has since been renamed IBN7. He has also been the President of the Editors Guild of India, the only television journalist to hold the post and was chosen a Global leader for tomorrow by the world economic forum in 2000.

During the total career, he has covered major national and international stories, specialising in national politics. He has contributed to several books and writes a fortnightly column that appears in several newspapers.

Network-18 acquisition and aftermath

On 29 May 2014, Reliance Industries Ltd announced it would be acquiring control in Network 18 Media & Investments Ltd, the parent of CNN-IBN,IBN7 and CNBC-TV18.[8] The board of RIL approved funding of up to ₹40 billion (US$480 million) to Independent Media Trust (IMT), of which RIL is the sole beneficiary, for acquisition of control in Network 18 and its subsidiaries.[9]

Rajdeep, along with the entire founding team – editorial and managerial- resigned from the Network18 group. Rajdeep, editor-in-chief of CNN IBN, wrote in a letter to the employees before his resignation, "Editorial independence and integrity have been articles of faith in 26 years in journalism and maybe I am too old now to change!".[10][11]


Controversies

On 28th Sept 2014, few months after becoming Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi addressed Indian diaspora at a historic speech at Madison Square Garden in New York City[12]. Large crowd of over 19,000 bought tickets to attend this sold-out event. Thousands more watched the event's live telecast in nearby Times Square. The crowds were ecstatic by Narendra Modi hour long speech in Hindi. After Modi's speech got over, Rajdeep, with a long history of motivated anti-Modi journalism, started to interview the crowds exiting from the Madison Square Garden. On the 34th Street, while the crowds exiting venue were chanting "Modi .. Modi", Rajdeep started doing "exit-interviews". This exit-interview coverage by Rajdeep was being broadcast live in India. Unedited raw footage is available in Youtube [13]. The raw footage shows Rajdeep has anti-Modi slant during his exit-interviews. The raw footage shows that successful Modi event and the pro-Modi chanting by the crowd visibly irritates Rajdeep. Visibly angry Rajdeep continues exit-interviews with a pronounced anti-Modi slant. Not pleased with Rajdeep's negative approach, few in the crowd are heard questioning Rajdeep's motivation for anti-Modi journalism. Many in the crowd are seen to start to boo Rajdeep. Rajdeep gets intolerant of being booed by the crowd. Still Rajdeep is seen continuing his telecast - describing the crowd as "a frenzied Narendra Modi crowd". Even when knowing he is on live TV in India, in a fit of rage, Rajdeep says on camera "he will not hold back". He is seen as taking matters in his own hands by initiating fist fights with the individuals. In the raw footage, angry Rajdeep is seen as removing his own jacket so he can fight better by roughing up the individuals booing him. Rajdeep repeats this act of fist fights with several individuals booing him. Finally, some people in the crowd intervene and peace is restored.

This entire episode where Rajdeep visibly gets irritated by pro-Modi slogans, loses his composure and initiates fist-fights without any physical provocation by the crowd was telecast live in India. However after the incident, Rajdeep tweeted claiming to be the victim of abuse. Some English language media houses in India towed Rajdeep's narrative of being the victim. NDTV reported this incident as Rajdeep was abused by the mob. Bloggers reported how Rajdeep provoked the crowd, initiated physical attacks & instead of apologizing to the individuals whom he initiated fist fights and threatened, Rajdeep played victim card [14] [15]. To support Rajdeep's narrative of being the victim of abuse by frenzied crowd, several edited versions of raw footage have also been uploaded on YouTube with confusing titles claiming Rajdeep as the victim.


Awards

He has won numerous other awards for journalistic excellence. Those includes:

  • The prestigious Padma Shri for Journalism in 2008 [16]
  • The International Broadcasters award for coverage of the 2002 Gujarat riots and the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism award for 2006.[17]
  • The Asian Television award for talk show presentation and has been News Anchor of the year at the Indian Television Academy for eight of the last nine years.
  • He has been the President of the Editors Guild of India and was also chosen as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the world economic forum.

Books

References

  1. ^ http://www.livemint.com/Consumer/57yRvDxbdsfoQMhZMwWcPO/CNNIBN-editors-Rajdeep-Sardesai-and-Sagarika-Ghose-quit.html
  2. ^ "The world according to".
  3. ^ http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rajdeep-sardesai-to-join-tv-today/article6404047.ece
  4. ^ http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/rajdeep-sardesai-joins-india-today-group-consulting-editor-aroon-purie/1/382113.html
  5. ^ Cached version of Indus View 2.1 (January 2006) The degree of Bachelor of Laws (LLB) is not awarded by Oxford University and here is a mistake for Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL), a postgraduate degree in law. All Bachelors of Arts and of Fine Art upon commencing their twenty-first term from matriculation may supplicate for the degree of Master of Arts Rajdeep Gupta]
  6. ^ "Rajdeep Sardesai". www.cricketarchive.com. Retrieved 21 April 2013.
  7. ^ http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/rajdeep-sardesai-to-join-tv-today/article6404047.ece
  8. ^ http://www.network18online.com/
  9. ^ http://www.hindustantimes.com/business-news/reliance-industries-ltd-to-acquire-control-of-network-18-to-spend-rs-4-000-crore/article1-1224198.aspx
  10. ^ http://www.firstpost.com/living/full-text-rajdeep-sardesais-farewell-letter-ibn-network-1603411.html
  11. ^ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Rajdeep-Sardesais-farewell-letter-to-his-staff/articleshow/37897632.cms
  12. ^ "At Madison Square Garden, Chants, Cheers and Roars for Modi". New York Times.
  13. ^ "Unedited raw footage of Rajdeep Sardesai Madison Square Garden incident".
  14. ^ "How Rajdeep Sardesai provoked crowd, attacked NRI & played victim game in New York". Guruprasad's Portal. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |1= (help)
  15. ^ [1]
  16. ^ CNN-IBN's Rajdeep Sardesai awarded Padma Shri
  17. ^ Award Winners
  18. ^ http://www.amazon.in/2014-Election-that-Changed-India/dp/0670087904
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