Afshan Anjum

Some Lesser Known Facts About Afshan Anjum

• Afshan Anjum is an Indian TV journalist, anchor, and blog writer.

• She started her career as a sports correspondent with Aaj Tak in January 1999 in New Delhi.

• She then joined NDTV in January 2003 as a news editor (sports). She used to host ‘Khel India/Googly’ a daily sports round-up show.

• She received a Chevening Scholarship during the program while pursuing a course in Broadcast Journalism in 2006.

• In 2008, she hosted a sports news show ‘Kissa Cricket Ka’ along with the former Indian cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu and gained immense popularity with it.

• Afshan has hosted a few popular cricket events like India’s Tour of Pakistan in 2004, ICC World Cup Cricket tournaments in 2007, 2011, and 2015.

• In 2019, she started working as a columnist, writer, and blogger at The Kashmir Monitor a newspaper in Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir.

• She was appointed as a C4D consultant for UNICEF India in September 2020.

• She shifted to Jammu & Kashmir after her marriage.

  

• In one of the blogs on a website, she talked about becoming a mother in her late 30s. She said,

I had my child in my late thirties, at an age I believed I had already lived more than half my life. By then, everyone including my mother, neighbourhood aunties, gynaecologists and even my maids had reminded me that it was high time I had a baby. I wasn’t just constantly reminded of the biological clock but also given hints of how it may just never happen. I did truly want it too, from the bottom of my heart. But how could I have a child before 35 when I only got married at 35? I wonder how many societies around the world advise having a child post 35 years of age. This number seems to have become an unofficial cut-off age for being a mother.”

• She loves animals and often posts pictures of them on her Instagram account.

 

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