Arnab Goswami

Some Lesser Known Facts About Arnab Goswami

• Arnab was born into an Assamese Brahmin family.

• His family belongs to a village in Assam’s Borpeta district. Later, his family migrated to Shillong and finally settled in Guwahati.

• His grandfather, Rajani Kanta Goswami was a judge and a freedom fighter who served as a leader of the Indian National Congress.

• His uncle, Dinesh Goswami, was the union law minister in the short-lived Vishwanath Pratap Singh government.

• When Arnab was in 6th standard, he got interested in debate contests.

• He started his career as a journalist in the early 1990s with ‘The Telegraph‘ newspaper in Kolkata.

• In 1995, he joined NDTV as a news broadcaster and after 3 years, he became a news editor.

• He also worked as a news anchor in DD Metro channel and Star News, alongside Rajdeep Sardesai.

• In 1998, his father contested for BJP in the general election from Guwahati, but he lost to Congress candidate, Bhubaneswar Kalita.

  

• His father was in the Indian Army, so his childhood was spent in different cities due to the transferable job of his father.

• The first TV interview was with Sonia Gandhi.

• In 2002, he authored his first book, ‘Combating Terrorism: The Legal Challenge.’

  

• In 2015, during a debate on a Times Now show, the Trinamool Congress (TMC) leader Mahua Moitra showed her middle finger to Goswami on air.

• In the same year, he became the 1st journalist to ring the opening bell at the BSE on its 140th year.

  

• Though, he has an image of not letting others speak on his show, but, in real life, he is a good listener.

• His sister works for Indian Defence and his brother-in-law is in the Indian Army.

• He considers the Assamese singer Late Bhupen Hazarika as his role model.

• In November 2016, he shocked everyone after announcing his departure from Times Now, to start his venture, Republic TV.

• On 6 May 2017, he launched his own English news channel Republic TV, which became the first news channel in India to be aired live on Hotstar.

• Republic TV beat its rival channel in the English genre Times Now and grabbed the #1 spot within a week of its launch.

• After he was arrested by the Raigad police in connection with abetment to suicide case of Anvay Naik, even many of his critics condemned the way police arrested him.