NDTV - A Pit of Snakes🐍

Compilation of Facts & Details on @ndtv & most notable people associated with it. All details mentioned are taken from Public Sources.
Let us understand the workings of New Delhi Television Limited, what all people started it & are running it.
NDTV was founded in 1984 by @PrannoyRoyNDTV & his wife Radhika Roy.
Lets see a background of what type of people have been associated with the news channel.
Let us unravel how "Nepotism & Favoritism & Elitism" has place there & why the Media House is Leaning to "LEFT"
Pranoy James Roy:
@PrannoyRoyNDTV, Father was a technician in General Electrics in Calcutta. To rise in company, he had allegedly converted to Roman Catholicism & also married an Irish Receptionist. He is Maternal Cousin of Arundhati Roy.
Radhika Karat w/o Pranoy Roy:
Her father, Sooraj Lal Das, migrated to Calcutta from Lahore, he became the Port Commissioner & later Director in Reputed Pvt Companies. Her sister, Brinda Karat w/o Prakash Karat(CPI-M Leader) was tutored by Devaki Jain, mother of Sreenivasan Jain.
Sreenivasan Jain:
@SreenivasanJain S/O Lakshmi Chand Jain who was a Gandhian & member of @INCIndia & was awarded the Padma Vibhushan by the UPA Govt. He was part of Quit India Movement.
During the Pokharan Nuclear Test, L C Jain was High Commissioner to South Africa & was+
recalled as he was found unfit for office since he openly criticized the Indian Nuclear Programme, often speaking overtly against it, highly damaging Indian side on NAM Summit afterwards.
His mother is Devaki Jain D/O M A Sreenivasan, First Indian Chairman of JOHN TAYLOR Company+
responsible for mining the infamous Kolar Gold Fields & is a "Reputed" Feminist Economist.
https://www.rediff.com/news/2005/may/04inter1.htm
Sonia Verma Singh:
@soniandtv started working with Pranoy Roy on the assignment awarded to NDTV by then DG of @DDNational, Bhaskar Ghose in 1992, "The World This Week" for Doordarshan.
She is married to Congress leader @SinghRPN
Vikram Chandra:
@vikramchandra is son of a UP Cadre IAS Yogesh Chandra, who retired as Defense Secretary. Also he is son-in-law of Govind Narain, a Former Home & Defence Secretary & Governor of Karnataka.
Vikram Chandra's mother Nandini Chandra was a journalist with @htTweets
His grandfather was, Girish Narayn ICS officer from UP cadre rose to Defense Secretary & retired as Home Secretary working for British Raj in India & thereafter for Govt of India. He began his career in television journalism in 1991 working with TV news magazine called Newstrack
Barkha Dutt:
@BDUTT mother, Prabha Dutt, was a senior journalist.
She stayed in a year long marriage with a certain "Mr. Mir" & after divorcing him she allegedly started dating & even married the Chairman of J&K Bank, Dr. Haseeb Drabu who was in office from 2005 to 2010.
He was+
sacked from his position in 2010 after an IB Report confirmed Drabu’s close relations with Hurriyat & PDP. He was reported as sharing confidential info with these organizations & was subsequently sacked.
He also anticipated a separate currency for J&K terming it as ‘Karra’.
Abhisar Sharma:
@abhisar_sharma is married to Sumana Sen who was the NDTV’s Assessing Officer in the Investigation Launched by @IncomeTaxIndia around 2010 & she had not declared the same to her department while investigating NDTV for financial irregularities.
Nidhi Razdan:
@Nidhi father is Maharaj Krishan Razdan, PTI longest serving CEO & Editor-In-Chief. She is a Kashmiri Pandit. She joined NDTV in 1999 at the age of 21. She was alleged to be in an affair with Omar Abduallah.
Sagarika Ghose:
@sagarikaghose is the daughter of Bhaskar Ghose, IAS 1960 Batch, former Secretary, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting 1993-1995 & DG of Doordarshan.
She is married to journalist and news anchor @sardesairajdeep S/O the cricketer famous Dilip Sardesai.
Her two aunts include Arundhati Ghose, former Ambassador & Diplomat and Ruma Pal, Former Justice of the Supreme Court of India.
KVL Narayana Rao S/O KV Krishna Rao, who served as Governor of J&K & other states.

Vishnu Som S/O Himachal Som, former senior diplomat.

Chetan Bhattacharji, a managing editor, grandson of Nirmal Mukarji, Former Cabinet Secretary & Governor of Punjab
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