Rajat Sharma

Sharma was born in Sabzi Mandi, Delhi. He grew up with his 6 brothers and 1 sister and lived in a small room of Delhi. He did his schooling from Ramjas School, Karolbagh. He did his higher studies from the Shri Ram College of Commerce (SRCC) and joined Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi Parishad In 1997, he married Ritu Dhawan.

After having completed his M.Com, he was hired as a researcher by Janardan Thakur, a journalist who had just quit Ananda Bazar Patrika to start a new syndicate column. Subsequently he joined the Onlooker Magazine as a trainee and then went on to become its editor in 1985. By this time Rajat Sharma had shifted base to Mumbai. After having spent three years at Onlooker, he joined Sunday Observer as an editor and later on The Daily again as the editor. It was in 1992 that he bumped into Zee TV’s Subhash Chandra during a flight to Delhi and it was in the midst of a casual conversation that the concept of Aap Ki Adalat took shape. In 1993, the first episode of Aap Ki Adalat was shot for Zee TV with Lalu Yadav, the then Chief Minister of Bihar. Rajat Sharma has interviewed more than 750 guests on his show and recently Aap Ki Adalat celebrated 21 years of broadcast thereby making it the longest running show in India’s television history.

Rajat Sharma (born 18 February 1957) is the Chairman and Editor-in-Chief, India TV. He is the anchor and inventor of the very famous TV show "Aap Ki Adalat". He was amongs one of the President of Delhi Cricket association. In 2015, Sharma was awarded with Padma Bhushan for his contribution towards the field of Journalism.