Education
He also studied at Oxford on an Inlaks Scholarship. He studied mass media at Stanford University for a three-month period.
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He also studied at Oxford on an Inlaks Scholarship. He studied mass media at Stanford University for a three-month period.
He has been called in the popular press, one of the top journalists in India today. Chandra"s reputation as a journalist was built while covering the Kashmir conflict. He is the former anchor for the Nine O"Clock News and current host of Gadget Guru and anchor of The Big Fight, on which he still appears despite his management responsibilities.
Vikram Chandra"s mother Nandini Chandra was a journalist with The Hindustan Times.
He is an alumnus of The Doon School, where he was the editor of The Doon School Weekly. After his secondary education, Chandra received his Bachelor"s Degree in Economics from Saint Stephen"s College, Delhi.
Chandra began his career in television journalism in 1991 working with a television news magazine called Newstrack. He has been with New Delhi Television Limited since 1994.
During these years, he worked on the prime time 9 O"Clock News, Gadget Guru (with Rajiv Makhni), which was a review show about new technologies.
He is best known for his award winning anchor position on The Big Fight, which is one of India"s top rated talk and current affairs shows. Chandra was appointed head of NDTV Profit before its launch. NDTV Profit is India"s leading English-language business channel.
In 2007, he was named Chief Executive Officer of NDTV Networks.
He added NDTV Convergence to his portfolio in 2009. Chandra"s first work of fiction, the thriller The Srinagar Conspiracy, was published in 2000 and became a best seller.
The book was notable for its combination of setting the action in Kashmir, a place in which Chandra had become familiar through his journalism, and of using English. As a reporter, Chandra was assigned to Kashmir, where he reported on war and conflict.
Chandra had an exclusive footage of the army camps at the Saltoro Heights in Siachen.
He was in Charari Sharief prior to insurgents burning the entire town in 1995. In 1999, he reported on the Kargil War. As the anchor of The Big Fight (NDTV), Chandra has interviewed King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia in 2006, Bill Gates in 2012, Shimon Peres, and Rupert Murdoch.
Chandra has been active in public interest media campaigns in India.
He has worked on several "Greenathons," which is a media campaign to expand the electrical system to rural areas and finance solar lanterns to bring light to homes. He has also been active in the "Save our Tigers" campaign to stop poaching.
He is also very popular among scholars for his significant contribution to various social and political themes.
Chandra is currently the Chief Executive Officer of NDTV Group a member of the NDTV Board.