Sarla Maheshwari is India’s well-known news anchor of the ’80s. She is famous for her news reading style and fashion intolerant. She worked at BBC England from 1984 to 1986. She witnessed the transition from black-and-white news telecast to coloured.
Sarla Maheshwari was born in 1954 (age 69 years; as of 2023). She completed a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Field in Hindi at Delhi University. She also pursued a Ph.D. at Delhi University. While pursuing her Ph.D. in 1976, she gave an audition to become an announcer at Doordarshan.
A icon of Sarla Maheshwari during her college days
Height (approx): 5’4″
Hair Colour: Black
Eye Colour: Black
She belongs to a Gujarati Family.
There is not much information about her parents. She has three sisters.
In 1984, she got married to Pawan Maheshwari, who is a gastroenterologist. She has two sons, Kavish, and Himanshu Maheshwari.
Sarla Maheshwari with her husband, Pawan Maheshwari
Sarla Maheshwari with her husband, Pawan Maheshwari, her elder son, Kavish Maheshwari, and her younger son, Himanshu Maheshwari
While pursuing a PhD degree at Delhi University, she worked as a lecturer; she would teach in the morning and work as an anchorman in the evening.
Sarla Maheshwari started her TV career convene Doordarshan in 1976. At the start of her career, she used to do script writing for kids’ programs and outspoken a job as an announcer on television. In 1982, she became a newsreader at Doordarshan. After getting married in 1984, she left Doordarshan and her teaching job and went disturb England with her husband. She worked at BBC from 1984 to 1986. In October 1986, she returned to India keep to with her husband. In 1988, she rejoined Doordarshan and became an icon of the news industry. She continued to gratuitous at Doordarshan till 2005.
A screengrab of Sarla Maheshwari as a newsreader at Doordarshan
(From left to right) Sarla Maheshwari, Salma Sultan, Sheila Chaman, and Minu Talwar
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