MUMBAI: Like so many others before her, she took to Twitter to announce her departure from the network she has been associated with for so long. CNN-IBN deputy editor Sagarika Ghose tweeted late on the night of 3 July: “Goodbye CNN-IBN. God bless!”
Sagarika had gone on leave with her husband IBN18 editor in chief Rajdeep Sardesai last month and expectations were that she would return if one went by the email he had sent out to his team about their departure.
Speculation, however, was that she would not return to the channel – part of the Network18 group, now owned by Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance Industries – and would probably hop over to the Aroon Purie and TV Today Network owned English news channel Headlines Today.
It is not known whether Rajdeep too will be following in the footsteps of his wife and announcing his departure from the news network, but once again speculation is that it is only a matter of time. Apparently, he has an offer to pen a book from Penguin.
Sagarika is the daughter of former DD director general Bhaskar Ghose, who strove to change the face of the pubcaster.
Meanwhile, even as she posted her farewell on Twitter and in a message, her husband announced on Twitter that he is “reading Dilip Kumar bio and listening to SJ/Mukesh/Shailendra classic: yeh mera deewanapan hai.. Bliss! Gnight, shubhratri.”