Nidhi Razdan

Nidhi Razdan
Razdan in March 2016
Born (1977-04-11) 11 April 1977 (age 47)[1][2]
Budgam, Jammu and Kashmir, India
Alma materLady Shri Ram College
Indian Institute of Mass Communication
OccupationJournalist
Years active1999–present
Spouse
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(m. 2005; div. 2007)​

Nidhi Razdan (born 11 April 1977) is an Indian journalist and television personality. She was the executive editor of NDTV and the primary anchor of NDTV 24x7 news debate show Left, Right & Centre, and the weekly debate show The Big Fight.

Since 1999, Razdan has covered a variety of news events and hosted a series of shows, often reporting live from the news scene. She has reported extensively on a wide range of key political, economic, and social stories from the Indian subcontinent, covering the Indian politics and foreign affairs closely, including the India-US nuclear deal, general elections, several state elections, all major news developments and elections in Jammu and Kashmir, the earthquakes in Gujarat in 2001 and Kashmir in 2005.[3] Razdan has been the diplomatic correspondent of NDTV 24x7, which is an English language television channel that carries news and current affairs in India, owned by New Delhi Television Ltd network.[4]

She has done documentaries from Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Tibet and the United Kingdom after the July 2005 London train bombings.[3] Razdan has also authored a book titled Left, Right and Centre: The Idea of India, which was published in July 2017 by Penguin Random House India.

She said that in June 2020 she was approached by some people for the job of "associate professor" at a "journalism school" at Harvard University .[5][6] In January 2021, Razdan tweeted that she was a victim of an elaborate phishing attack that had made her quit her 21-year-old job and part with many of her personal details.[7][8]

  1. ^ @Nidhi (11 April 2018). "Happy Birthday" (Tweet). Retrieved 7 June 2019 – via Twitter.
  2. ^ @Nidhi (7 June 2019). "I am 42 years old. How old are you? 12?" (Tweet). Retrieved 7 June 2019 – via Twitter.
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  5. ^ Bhattacharya, Jaijit (17 January 2021). "Nidhi Razdan, Phishing, And Three Hard Lessons". Outlook (Indian magazine). Retrieved 5 February 2021.
  6. ^ Nair, Meera S.; Wang, Andy Z. (17 January 2021). "Indian Reporter Claims 'Phishing Attack' Duped Her Into Believing She Had Been Hired As Harvard Journalism Professor". The Harvard Crimson.
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  8. ^ "Journalist Nidhi Razdan says Harvard teaching offer was an online fraud". Hindustan Times. 16 January 2021. Retrieved 24 February 2021.