Rajdeep Sardesai is senior journalist, author, and TV news presenter. His 2014: The Election That Changed India (2014) has been translated into half a dozen languages and his Democracy’s XI: The Great Indian Cricket Story (2017) has been a bestseller. He is the only Indian to win the Asian Television Award for talk show and news presentation, and has won more than 50 awards in his long career in print and television journalism, including the International Broadcasters Award, the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award (2007), and Padma Shri (2008). A graduate of St Xaviers College, he has completed his Masters and LLB from Oxford University and played first class cricket at Oxford. 
Year: 2018