Sagarika Ghose (Bengali pronunciation: [ʃagorika ɡʱoʃ]; born 8 November 1964) is an Indian Member of Parliament, journalist, columnist and author.

[14] Ghose resigned from CNN-IBN on 5 July 2014 after the network was acquired by the Mukesh Ambani-led Reliance Industries ltd. She was deputy editor of the channel.

[15][16] Her show Question Time Didi, an audience based interaction with West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee and students, from which Banerjee famously stormed out mid-way, received the NT Award for Best Public Debate Show in 2013.

[citation needed] In 2012 she received the CF Andrews Award for Distinguished Alumnus from St Stephen's College.

[5] In her 2018 non-fiction book, Why I Am A Liberal: A Manifesto For Indians Who Believe in Individual Freedom,[11][25][26] Ghose describes herself as a liberal who believes in rule of law, limited government, robust institutions and individual liberty.

Ghose propounds the thesis that although the republic of India was founded as a liberal democracy in 1947, subsequent Indian governments throughout the post-Independence period have sought to attack individual liberty and vastly increase the powers of the government, or the powers of what she calls the Indian 'Big State'.

[11] Her two aunts include Arundhati Ghose, former ambassador and diplomat and Ruma Pal, former justice of the Supreme Court of India.