Other names Vikramaditya Chandra Spouse Seema Chandra Role Executive | Name Vikram Chandra Agent Veena Janet Basil TV shows The Big Fight | |
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Full Name Vikramaditya A. Chandra Notable credit(s) The Big Fight, Gadget Guru Awards ITA Award for Best Anchor - Talk/Chat Show, ITA Award for Best Talk/Chat Show Nominations Indian Telly Award for Best News Anchor, Star Guild Award for Best News Anchor Similar People Prannoy Roy, Radhika Roy, Barkha Dutt, Nidhi Razdan, Rajdeep Sardesai Profiles | ||
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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.
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Early life and career
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.
Notable assignments
As a reporter, Chandra was assigned to Kashmir, where he reported on war and conflict. Chandra had an exclusive footage of the army camps at the Saltoro Heights in Siachen. He was in Charari Sharief prior to insurgents burning the entire town in 1995. In 1999, he reported on the Kargil War.
As the anchor of The Big Fight (NDTV), Chandra has interviewed King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in 2006, Bill Gates in 2012, Shimon Peres, and Rupert Murdoch. He also interviewed Tim Cook, CEO of Apple in May 2016, during the latter's visit to India.
Chandra has been active in public interest media campaigns in India. He has worked on several "Greenathons," which is a media campaign to expand the electrical system to rural areas and finance solar lanterns to bring light to homes. He has also been active in the "Save our Tigers" campaign to stop poaching. He is also very popular among scholars for his significant contribution to various social and political themes.
Awards
In 2007, Chandra received the designation "Global Leader for Tomorrow" from the World Economic Forum in Davos when he was selected as a "Young Global Leader." He has twice won the Hero Honda Indian Television Academy Award Award for Best Anchor for a Talk Show for The Big Fight in 2005 and 2008 and the Teacher's Achievement Award for Communication, amongst other coveted recognitions.