Vikram A Chandra
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| Born |
Vikramaditya A. Chandra 7 January 1967 New Delhi, India |
| Other names | Vikramaditya Chandra |
| Alma mater |
University of Delhi Oxford University Stanford University |
| Occupation | News Anchor and group CEO of NDTV |
| Agent | Kartik Krishnamurty |
| Notable credit(s) | The Big Fight, Gadget Guru |
| Spouse(s) | Seema Chandra |
Vikram Chandra (Hindi: विक्रमादित्य चन्द्रा 7 January 1967 ) is the consulting editor of NDTV. He was the CEO of NDTV Group from 2011 to October 2016. He has been called in the popular press, one of the top journalists in India today. Chandra's reputation as a journalist was built while covering the Kashmir conflict. He is the former anchor for the Nine O'Clock News and current host of Gadget Guru and anchor of The Big Fight.
Vikram Chandra's mother Nandini Chandra was a journalist with The Hindustan Times. He is an alumnus of The Doon School, where he was the editor of The Doon School Weekly. After his secondary education, Chandra received his Bachelor's Degree in Economics from St. Stephen's College, Delhi. He also studied at Oxford on an Inlaks Scholarship. He studied mass media at Stanford University for a three-month period. He is married to Seema Chandra.
Chandra began his career in television journalism in 1991 working with a TV news magazine called Newstrack. He has been with New Delhi Television Limited since 1994. During these years, he worked on the prime time 9 O'Clock News, Gadget Guru (with Rajiv Makhni), which was a review show about new technologies. He is best known for his award winning anchor position on The Big Fight, which is one of India's top rated talk and current affairs shows.
Chandra was appointed head of NDTV Profit before its launch. NDTV Profit is India's leading English-language business channel. In 2007, he was named CEO of NDTV Networks. He added NDTV Convergence to his portfolio in 2009. Chandra is currently the CEO of NDTV Group a member of the NDTV Board.
Chandra's first work of fiction, the thriller The Srinagar Conspiracy, was published in 2000 and became a best seller. The book was notable for its combination of setting the action in Kashmir, a place in which Chandra had become familiar through his journalism, and of using English.
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