Kishwar Desai, Baroness Desai (née Rosha) (born 1 December 1956) is an Indian author and columnist.
She started her career as a print journalist and worked as a political reporter with the Indian
Express moving on to television and broadcast media after a while, where she worked for over two
decades. She worked as anchor, TV producer and head of a TV channel with some of the major Indian
television networks. She was also the Vice President at Zee Telefilms (Zee TV). She anchored
Doordarshan's morning show, Good Morning Today, after which she took over as the CEO of Tara
Punjabi TV channel, a part of Broadcast Worldwide, which was established by former STAR TV head,
Rathikant Basu. Thereafter Desai moved to Zee and NDTV, where she worked as a producer.
Kishwar Desai has written four books. She currently writes columns for The Week magazine, The Asian
Age and The Tribune newspapers. @kishwardesai