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Suhasini Haidar is an Indian journalist, who is the Diplomatic Editor of The Hindu, an Indian English-language daily newspaper.

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Suhasini Haidar was born on Tuesday, 20 February 1973 (age 50 years; as of 2023) in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Her zodiac sign is Pisces. Later, she shifted with her parents from Chennai to Delhi. She earned a Bachelor’s degree from Lady Shriram College in Delhi. She then did a master’s degree in broadcast journalism at Boston University’s College of Communication in the USA. ^[1]Suhasini Haidar

Physical Appearance

Height (approx.): 5′ 6″

Hair Colour: Dark Brown

Eye Colour: Black

Family

Parents & Siblings

Her father, Subramanian Swamy, is an Indian politician, economist, statistician, and a former professor of Mathematical Economics at IIT Delhi, and her mother’s name is Roxna Swamy. Suhasini has an elder sister named Gitanjali Swamy, an entrepreneur and private equity professional.

Suhasini Haidar’s parents

Suhasini Haidar’s sister Gitanjali Swamy

Husband & Children

She is married to Nadeem Haidar, who is the son of former Indian Foreign Secretary Salman Haidar. The couple has two daughters named Ava Mumtaz and Maya Mehr.

Career

In 1994, Suhasini started her career in journalism as an intern at CNN’s United Nations bureau in New York. Following this, she became a producer at the CNN New Delhi bureau in April 1995. From 1995 to 2005, she had a significant tenure with CNN International. During this time, she provided regular reports from various countries in the Indian subcontinent, including India, Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh. In 2000, she sustained injuries in a bomb blast during an in-depth reporting from conflict zones in Kashmir. She also spent a month working for CNN.com in New York, contributing to their coverage of the 9/11 attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Her contributions were instrumental in CNN receiving the Columbia-Dupont Broadcast Journalism Award in 2005 for its wide coverage of the 2004 Indian tsunami.

Suhasini Haidar while covering the tsunami news in Campbell Bay in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India in 2004

Later, she was appointed as a Correspondent for CNN International’s New Delhi bureau. From 2005 to 2014, she worked as a Foreign Affairs editor and prime-time anchor for CNN-IBN. Later, she was appointed as the Diplomatic Editor of The Hindu, where she regularly writes on foreign policy issues and hosts a weekly online show ‘WorldView with Suhasini Haidar.’ In March 2011, she was the only Indian journalist present in areas controlled by Gaddafi during the Libyan conflict. She has interviewed Prime Ministers and Presidents of many countries including Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Former Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, and Former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan.

Suhasini Haidar interviewing former Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan

Awards

2009: NT Award for Best Chat show for ‘Children Day at 7RCR,’ a special interview with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Mrs Gursharan Kaur

2009: Best TV news Presenter at the News Television Awards

2010: ITA Award for the show ‘Children’s Day at 7RCR’
Suhasini Haidar receiving the ITA Award in 2010

2011: Best spot news reporting (Libya) Award at the Exchange4Media Awards

2011: Global News Coverage Award at the Indian Television Academy-GR8! Awards

2013: Best International News Coverage Award at the Enba Exchange4Media Awards

2014: Best TV News Presenter Award at the NT Awards

2014: People of the Year by Limca Book of Records

2015: Prem Bhatia Award for Best Journalist, Diplomatic and International Affairs Reporting

Honoured,thrilled to have been awarded the Prem Bhatia award for Reporting! Dr.@pbmehta to deliver the PBMT lecture tomorrow at 6pm at IIC

— Suhasini Haidar (@suhasinih) August 10, 2015