Early Life and Education
Vir Sanghvi is an Indian editor and also a television personality. Currently, he is Editorial Director of the Hindustan Times. Sanghvi was brought up in Bombay (now Mumbai) and London and educated at Mayo College, Ajmer, and Mill Hill School, London. He went on to read politics, philosophy and economics at Brasenose College, Oxford.
His journalistic career began with India Today before he went to Oxford. He continued writing for the magazine during his vacations and in 1978, the publishers of India Today asked him to start Bombay, India's first city magazine. The first issue of Bombay appeared in 1979. Sanghvi left India Today in 1981 to live in London for a year. In 1982, he returned to India as editorial director of Business Press, India's largest publisher of trade magazines. Sanghvi's TV career began in 1994 on Doordarshan, the state-owned broadcaster. Starting 1996, he hosted a number of programmes for the STAR Network. In 2008, he received the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi Journalism Award. His published books include Rude Food, India – Then and Now and Men of Steel (a collection of profiles of India's leading businessmen). He has also authored a biography of the late Madhavrao Scindia, which was released by Sonia Gandhi in 2009, in Delhi.
Currently Sanghvi has two shows on the air with "Foodistan" appearing on NDTV Good Times and "Achievers' Club" on Star World.
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