January 2021 – Anurag Sason

Rakesh Tikait on a tractor/Photo courtesy-Twitter

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Anurag Sason

Anurag K Sason is an Indian journalist with experience in newspaper (print media), news agency, broadcast media, news app (short video sharing app) and digital journalism. Sason has worked as Senior News Editor in Likee app at BIGO Technology Company (MNC). He headed the entire news department/operation in India. Before joining the MNC, Sason has worked as Deputy News Editor (Digital Media/English) in India TV news channel. Earlier, he has worked in ABP news channel as Deputy Producer-News (Digital Media/English). Before that Sason has worked in Dainik Bhaskar Corp Ltd, United News of India (U.N.I)-News Agency and Northern Indian Patrika (N.I.P)-English Daily. Anurag Sason runs Monday Talk interview series. Sason has worked predominantly on the political beat. However, he has also filed many news stories in other beats too. He has taken interviews of eminent politicians like Dr Shashi Tharoor, Mr Subramanian Swamy, Mr Keshav Prasad Maurya, Mr Manish Tewari, Mr Hardik Patel, Mr Mani Shankar Aiyar, Ms Sheila Dikshit, Mr Yogendra Yadav, Mr Naveen Kumar, Mr Vijay Goel and many others. Sason has covered mammoth events like Maha Kumbha 2013, Lok Sabha elections 2014, Lok Sabha polls 2019, many state elections and Farmers' Protest (Kisan Andolan) Three years after the Kedarnath tragedy (2013), Sason traveled to Badrinath and Kedarnath in June 2016 to do two exclusive news stories. He went to both the places to see what changed since then. Sason is also a guest article writer. He loves to travel. He also loves to record his journeys and share the same via vlogs with public. Sason has also done two sting operations—one on Lajpat Nagar sex racket and another on Demonetisation related case. Even after so many years, the first one is still on top in search in Google. A native of Allahabad (Uttar Pradesh), Sason has done his MA in Journalism and Mass Communication (1st division/gold medalist) from Allahabad University. He comes from a family of government servants with him being the only person in his family as a Journalist.

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