Anuradha Ananth
Head Features, NDTV-Hindu.
An English Literature graduate, Anuradha Ananth loves the Arts in all its forms. At work as Features-Head, she conceptualizes and produces shows. Currently, she hosts “The Big Pic” and “Off the record" and anchors the "Good Morning Chennai" bulletin. At play, quite literally, she acts on stage. Her passion for books has led to her to taking a baby step and writing her first book for children called “Rangoli”. People, films, travel and life, with its many joys and challenges, are her muses. Her journey in the media started with SUN NEWS and SS Music and it continues with NDTV-HINDU.
Charitra Parthasarathy
An ACJ graduate and a self-confessed techie, Charitra got bitten by the tech bug early on. But if gadgets aren’t by her side, she’ll settle for a vacation to wherever her back-pack takes her. But even an unplanned holiday won’t make her give up her to-do notes and stock of filter-coffee. She loves her phone. After all, the GPS helps her get back to life on "Byte It". She has moved to NDTV-Hindu from NDTV-Good Times. After all, there’s no place like home – Chennai.
Sara Mohan
An ACJ graduate, NDTV-Hindu is her first media stint. Being a life science major someday she’d still love to pursue that marine biology course. Chocolate or mint is quite enough to give her a sugar high…not that she needs it of course! Music Is a passion and there’s always a tune running around in her head. She sings too.
Bubbly and vivacious, Sara is a livespark. Her family and friends mean the world to her and she to them. Most of the time she thinks dogs are better people than people. She hates computers and they hate her back but that doesn’t stop her from having to put up with technology. She’d love to travel and see more of the big world out there…her as yet unfulfilled dream is to someday live in a tree house on an uncharted island. Suggestions anyone? Not to forget she loves to shop. If you don’t believe that, watch ‘Super Shopper’. And her love for children sees her hosting "I Spy with my Digital Eye".
Nirupama Belliappa
Having studied film and East Asian religions, in Montreal, Canada, Nirupama did not expect to be hosting a workout show with NDTV-Hindu in Chennai, India. But this country has taught her to stop expecting. Her petite form belies her dinosaurian appetite, hence it’s a little wonder she hosts a segment of "Feeding Frenzy". She takes occasional breaks from the dinner table to play her flute, guitar or sitar…and if there’s still time left she ends up being a water-babe!
Pratiba Raman
After dwelling in the field of print journalism for nearly two years, NDTV-Hindu happened. She is most of the time crazy, which is evident in the fact that while most women are out shopping for clothes and cosmetics, she is busy studying a gadget. If there’s anything that fascinates her, it’s technology. Her idea of fun is to sit with gaming consoles on Byte It or learn about the technology that drives high-end vehicles. If she’s not in her gizmo world, she is busy feeding her ravenous self on "Feeding Frenzy". On the streets, along the pavements or even by the beach, you can find her in every nook and corner of the city hunting for breakfast, lunch or dinner. She leaves many wondering about her envious waistline after witnessing her love for food. Appearances are deceptive… she is a telling example!
Sreekanth Sankar Dass
Sreekanth Sankar Dass went to Chinmaya Vidyalaya school for his primary education. Here the motto was “keep smiling” which he took to heart. He smiled when he froze on stage, he smiled when he got punished, he smiled when he got bowled, he smiled when he got rejected and finally when he was ditched by a girl--- he broke. Broke into laughter, that is.
Sreekanth’s sense of humor is his way of life. After enjoying his school life like a Nawab in the city of Nawabs, Hyderabad, he landed up in no man’s land, SASTRA University. He graduated as a biotechnologist with flying colours and made one of his greatest discoveries- that He was not made for working with chemicals and lab animals. His passion for people, communication and entertainment made him take up theatre and eventually TV. His spirit and enthusiasm will make him even climb the Everest to cover a Byte It Gaming story. He lives by the principle-“Do to others, what You want others to do to you.” Reframed and patented by Sreekanth.
Dipti Kumar
That’s the number of years she has studied finishing with a Masters Degree in T.V Journalism, the month she was born and the total pearly whites you see when she smiles. An effervescent attitude, she likes to interact, sing and loves travelling back in time to a fantasy land of Bewitched, Jeanie, Here comes Lucy or even Wizard of Oz!In the real world, its media moguls like Oprah, reporter Amanpour and Suzie Orman and preacher Joyce Meyer who inspire her to work better.A love for creativity her show ‘Shift Focus’ has become the canvas for experimenting and pushing the focus beyond a fade in or a fade out. Always open to learning new things her latest being Business and Markets. Practical learning is far better than just theory. Intending to study further, right now, it’s serving the Country with what best God has given.Her get go line: “Past is experience, Present is Experiment, Future is Expectation, so use you Experience in your Experiment to achieve you Expectation”