Rajdeep Sardesai is a senior journalist, author and TV news presenter. He is currently the consulting editor and lead news anchor of the India Today Group. His latest book is 2019: How Modi won India. His previous books include 2014: The Election That Changed India, a national bestseller that has been translated into half a dozen languages and Democracy’s Eleven: The Great Story of Indian Cricket, which was shortlisted by MCC Lords as ‘Cricket Book of the Year in 2017-18. He has won more than 50 awards, including the prestigious Padma Shri for Journalism in 2008, the International Broadcasters Award for coverage of the 2002 Gujarat riots, the 2007 Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award and the Prem Bhatia Award for Political Journalism for analysis of the 2019 elections. The first Indian to win the Asian Television award for both talk show and news presentation, he has been News Anchor of the year at the Indian Television Academy a record ten times. In 2020, he was conferred with the Lifetime achievement award at the annual news broadcasting awards. 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. Sardesai writes a fortnightly column across several newspapers, including The Hindustan Times and Dainik Bhaskar. He has his own blog and is the third most followed journalist in the world on Twitter.