Arnab Goswami

Arnab Goswami
Goswami at Times Literary Carnival, 2012
Born	(1973-10-09) 9 October 1973 (age 43) Guwahati, Assam, India
Nationality	Indian
Education	Hindu College, Delhi University St Antony's College, Oxford
Occupation	News Anchor
Years active	1995–present
Organization	Republic TV
Notable credit(s)	The Newshour, Frankly Speaking with Arnab Co-founder of Republic TV

Arnab Goswami (born 9 October 1973) is an Indian journalist and television news anchor. He is the managing director and co-founder of the upcoming news channel, Republic TV, to be launched in 2017.

Goswami was the editor-in-chief and a news anchor of the Indian news channel Times Now and ET Now, from 2006 to 2016. On Times Now, he anchored The Newshour, a live debate, that at 9 pm (IST) weekdays on the channel. He also hosted a special television programme Frankly Speaking with Arnab. On 1 November 2016, Goswami resigned as Editor-in-Chief of Times Now. He announced his upcoming news channel, Republic TV, to be launched in 2017.

Goswami was born in Guwahati, Assam on 9 October 1973. His paternal grandfather, Rajani Kanta Goswami, was a lawyer, a Congress leader and an independence activist. His maternal grandfather, Gauri, was a Communist and leader of the opposition in Assam for many years. He was a writer and a recipient of the Asam Sahitya Sabha Award. Arnab Goswami's father is Colonel (Retd.) Manoranjan Goswami and his mother is Suprabha Gain-Goswami. Manoranjan has been a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party and contested the 1998 Lok Sabha Polls as the BJP candidate for the Guwahati to Lok Sabha of Assam where he was defeated by Congress candidate Bhubaneshwar Kalita. His maternal uncle, Siddhartha Bhattacharya, a BJP MLA from Gauhati East constituency, was the head of the Assam unit of the party before Sarbananda Sonowal took over in 2015.