Background
Chakrabarti was born in London, England to an Indian Bengali family and was raised in Birmingham, also having spent time in India as a teenager as a student at the Calcutta International School in Kolkata.
Chakrabarti was born in London, England to an Indian Bengali family and was raised in Birmingham, also having spent time in India as a teenager as a student at the Calcutta International School in Kolkata.
She has a degree in English and French from Exeter College, Oxford, where she graduated in 1988, and she also spent a year in France while a student.
In 1994, Chakrabarti became a reporter for the Breakfast Programme on the newly launched British Broadcasting Corporation Radio Five Live. She later became a general news correspondent working on television as well as radio. In 1997, she became the British Broadcasting Corporation Community Affairs correspondent, covering the Stephen Lawrence Inquiry and also working on Home Affairs.
In 1999 Chakrabarti secured her role as political correspondent for the British Broadcasting Corporation, working across a range of programmes in television and radio, reporting on politics for BBC1, BBC2, the British Broadcasting Corporation News Channel, Radio 4 and Five Live.
In January 2011 she was the education correspondent for British Broadcasting Corporation News. In May 2014 she was appointed as presenter and reporter on BBC1.
