Veteran Indian television journalist Nidhi Razdan has drawn attention after marrying Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah.
Razdan spent nearly two decades at NDTV, where she worked as a news anchor, investigative reporter and documentary maker. She is also an author, The Hindu reported.
Born on April 11, 1977, in Budgam district of Jammu and Kashmir, she is the daughter of veteran journalist Maharaj Krishan Razdan, a former editor-in-chief of the Press Trust of India.
After studying at Apeejay School in Delhi, she graduated from Lady Shri Ram College and earned a postgraduate diploma in radio and television journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication.
Razdan joined NDTV in 1999 and worked there for about 21 years. As an executive editor, she hosted programs including Left, Right and Centre, India Decides 9, The Lead and The Big Fight. She left NDTV in June 2020.
Her documentary work covered Pakistan-administered Kashmir, Tibet and the aftermath of train bombings in Britain.
Her book, Left, Right and Centre: The Idea of India, was published in 2017.
Razdan received the Ramnath Goenka Award for Excellence in Journalism for reporting from Jammu and Kashmir and northeastern India. She also received an International Press Institute award for investigative reporting on the Kathua rape and murder case.
She married journalist and author Neelesh Misra in 2005, and they divorced in 2007.
Her marriage to Abdullah recently became public. Both confirmed it on X, with Abdullah writing that they had begun a new journey. Neither disclosed how they met.
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