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Sonia Singh is an eminent Indian journalist. She is the editorial director and president of the NDTV news channel. She manages the ethics committee of the channel. She is the host of the NDTV Dialogues, a show on NDTV that debates on clarifying the issues and looking for possible solutions. Sonia Singh on the NDTV dialogues.While studying at Cardiff, Wales, Sonia Singh also received Chevening Scholarship. Sonia got the opportunity to meet Queen Elizabeth, during her stay in the UK. Sonia Singh while meeting Queen Elizabeth.In 1992, Sonia Singh started working at NDTV as a researcher. Initially, she appeared on a show named The World This Week that was broadcasted for Doordarshan.During her career at NDTV, she supervised various news coverages in India including Kandahar hijack, the attack on the Indian Parliament, the Kargil war, Jessica Lall case and 26/11.Several prestigious awards are earned by Sonia Singh during her career in journalism like Best Talk show, Best Anchor, FICCI Young Achiever, Best Editor in Chief award.In 2019, Sonia Singh published her book titled Defining India, Through Their Eyes. In her book, she mentioned those influential Indian personalities who have contributed to the growth and development of India and their viewpoints on India.In 2020, during the death case of Sushant Singh Rajput, Sonia Singh interviewed Rhea Chakraborty on NDTV, the main culprit of the death/murder case. During this case, NDTV gave a platform to the main accused when other news channels were denying the same. Sonia Singh while interviewing Rhea Chakraborty in 2020.During her initial period of working as a journalist, Sonia Singh confessed in an interview that she is a camera-shy person and always feel uncomfortable with the camera rolling. However, with the passage of time she got used to the camera flashing on her face.Your Call, India Decides and The NDTV Dialogues are some of her popular shows on the Indian news channel NDTV.In an interview with She the people, Sonia was asked about the democracy of Indian television. She explained her views, Television has been a huge asset to Indian democracy. However, where my worries are is that we cannot become a mouthpiece to the powerful. That is something that we must guard against as it challenges the very notion of our democracy. In the same interview, she narrated the story of the Dalai Lama when he was deciding where he should go to get refuge when he was at the border of Tibet, Bhutan and India. She revealed, He got a call from India to come to the country and how that one moment changed the course of history..