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A familiar face on TV, Shaili Chopra is an award-winning business news anchor with nearly twelve years of experience in television anchoring, reporting and writing columns. She is the Business Editor for Tehelka, writes a popular golf column ‘Tee Off With Shaili Chopra’ for the DNA. Until September 2012, Shaili was the Senior Editor and Lead Female Anchor at ET Now, the Economic Times Business News Channel. Shaili anchored the primetime shows and interviewed the likes of Warren Buffett, George Soros, Anshu Jain, P Chidambaram, Christine Lagarde and many others. She has also covered the Mumbai terror attacks live from outside the Taj Mahal Hotel.

Anjana Om Kashyap is an Indian journalist and news presenter. She is a news anchor of Aaj Tak news channel. She hosts the daily debate show Halla Bol and audience based election debate show across the country, Rajtilak and Dilli Ke Dil Mein Kya Hai on Aaj Tak. She has earlier hosted debate shows like Badi Behas and Do Took in other Hindi channels. She did Diploma in journalism from Jamia in 2002. She started her journalism career in 2003 with Doordarshan programme Aankhon Dekhi In 2003 itself, she joined Zee News. She worked in Zee for about five years before joining News 24 in 2007. She then shifted to Star News before joining Aaj Tak. Her debate show Do Took, on News 24 was very popular. Anjana starred as herself in Hindi films like Sultan (2016 film) and Tiger Zinda Hai.

Barkha Dutt is an Indian television journalist. She was part of NDTV's team for 21 years, until she left the channel in January 2017. Dutt emerged as a prominent figure after her frontline war reporting on the Kargil Conflict between India and Pakistan in 1999. Dutt has won many national and international awards, including the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour. Dutt was one of the journalists taped in the Radia tapes controversy. At NDTV, Dutt was the host of the weekly, award-winning talk-show We The People as well as the daily prime-time show The Buck Stops Here. Dutt graduated from St. Stephen's College, Delhi with a degree in English literature. She received a Master's in Mass Communications from Jamia Millia Islamia Mass Communication Research Center, New Delhi. She started her journalism career with NDTV and later rose to head the English news wing of the organisation. She also obtained a master's degree in journalism from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, New York assisted by an Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation scholarship. Her reporting of the Kargil conflict in 1999, including an interview with Captain Vikram Batra, brought her to prominence in India.