Jury Members For Salaam India Awards 2014

Jury Members

Rajat Sharma

A formidable journalist, most popular Hindi news anchor and a farsighted entrepreneur. He has successfully earned the tag of a media baron as the Chairman & Editor-in-Chief of leading Hindi News Channel, India TV.

He is also the host of the longest running TV talk show “Aap Ki Adalat”. Over the last 20 years a host of personalities like former or aspiring prime ministers, movie stars, sportsmen, self-styled godmen, social activists have been subjected to his relentless grilling on the show.

Dr. S.Y. Quraishi (Chairman of the Jury)

An IAS officer of the 1971 batch from Haryana cadre who also holds a PHD in communications and Social Marketing. Amongst many prestigious appointments, he has also served as a Secretary in the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports. He retired as the Chief Election Commissioner of India in 2012.

Kiran Bedi

The first woman officer in the IPS. A fearless officer and now a well known social activist, Kiran Bedi is currently involved with a number of social issues, most prominent of them being the “India against Corruption” movement.

Gen (Retd.) Deepak Kapoor

The 23rd Chief of Army staff of the Indian Army, General Kapoor has had an illustrious career in the Indian army spanning four decades and is a veteran of the 1971 Indo Pak war in the eastern theatre.

Col. (Retd.) Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore

The first Indian to win an individual silver medal for India in the Olympics, he accomplished this feat at Athens in the 2004 Olympic games. Rathore passed out of the National Defence Academy, and has served in the Indian Army where he retired as a Colonel in 2013, before joining politics.

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