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Sarah, Duchess of York shares her thoughts on Talk Asia
Airtimes: Indian Standard Times
Saturday, January 7 at 09:30am, 20:00hrs and 22:30hrs
Sunday, January 8 at 06:00am, 17:00hrs and 20:30hrs,
Monday, January 9 at 09:00am
This week on TALK ASIA, host Lorraine Hahn speaks to Britain’s Sarah, Duchess of York, about her life now and as a member of the royal family. Sarah Ferguson became a household name when she married Prince Andrew, the Duke of York in July 1986. But she made even more headlines with her subsequent separation and divorce, just a decade later.
She looks back on her life as a royal. “It’s very difficult when you go into any organization where you have to keep certain traditions.… I ran around trying to please everybody, maybe I should have remained firm. You know, like Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz…you go there, and there’s a big voice, and all this is so frightening, and then you go behind the curtain, and it’s not all really that frightening.”
SARAH FERGUSON
Sarah talks about her dedication to the charity SOS Villages, one of the NGOs dedicated to helping child victims of the deadly South Asian Tsunami of 2003. “I am preparing a trip to go there later on (in the) year. I feel that, I’ve always been one of these people, and when I started Children in Crisis, that it’s very important to go where children are forgotten,” she said.
But she adds that while there is much work to be done in a disaster, the real crisis occurs when children are neglected in everyday life, “…when a disaster hits, like the tsunami…I notice everyone focuses on it, and the media’s there, a lot of money’s raised, and I absolutely think it’s dead right, but, what about the other children? What about the pediatric problem of children dying with AIDS in Africa, what about the children of Romania, of Poland, there is still this mass urgency to give a child a life….We must always keep our eye on the focus, on where the demands of children are.”
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News Broadcasting
Rajesh Sundaram joins NDTV Profit as senior editor, assignment
The 32-year newsroom veteran has launched channels on three continents and covered everything from 9/11 to South African television
MUMBAI: NDTV Profit has bolstered its newsroom with a hire who has done rather more than most. Rajesh Sundaram, a journalist with over three decades of editorial, managerial and consultative experience across India and international markets, joins as senior editor, assignment, tasked with sharpening the network’s newsgathering and real-time response.
Sundaram’s career reads like a tour of Indian media’s most formative moments. He began at Businessworld in 1994, moved to Zee News as bureau chief across Mumbai and Chennai, then joined NDTV in 2002 as part of its political bureau during a particularly febrile period in Indian politics. A stint as India correspondent for Al Jazeera International followed, where he covered key geopolitical developments and got his first serious taste of the global newsroom.
What sets Sundaram apart, however, is his serial channel-launching habit. At NewsX, he helped get the operation off the ground. At Headlines Today, part of the India Today Group, he served as editor. At News Nation, he helped launch the Hindi news channel and its digital ecosystem. He then crossed continents to lead the launch of ANN7 in South Africa as editor-in-chief, overseeing both television and digital. Back in India, he launched Tamil news channels News7 Tamil and Cauvery News, and later served as principal consultant for the launch of Marathi channel Lokshahi. Most recently, he helped build and lead the Press Trust of India’s video service and content studio, before stints consulting for Business Today and The Himalayan Times.
Rahul Kanwal, chief executive and editor-in-chief of NDTV, left little doubt about what Sundaram is expected to deliver. “The assignment desk is where a newsroom’s intent becomes action,” he said. “Rajesh brings a rare combination of field experience and leadership in building news operations at scale.”
Sundaram has reported from across India and the world, covering elections, civil conflicts, the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and the 2008 US presidential election.
At NDTV Profit, he will lead the assignment desk, driving editorial coordination and real-time response across markets and breaking developments. For a business news network sharpening its focus on speed and multi-platform delivery, it has hired a man who has built newsrooms from scratch on three continents. The assignment desk is in good hands.
