Kadambari Murali
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Kadambari Murali Wade | |
|---|---|
| Born | 9 August 1975 Mumbai, India |
| Status | Married |
| Occupations | Magazine editor, sports journalist |
| Notable credit(s) | National sports editor, HindustanTimes, Asian Age; The Pioneer |
| Title | Former editor-in-chief, Sports Illustrated |
| Spouse | Wyly Wade |
Kadambari Murali Wade (born 9 August 1975) the former sports journalist and former editor-in-chief of Sports Illustrated India, is the only woman to have held that post at the Hindustan Times. She joined SI India in November 2010, to direct the revamp of the monthly magazine beginning with its January 2011 issue. Her articles largely focus on cricket. She is the youngest national editor of a major news outlet.[citation needed] The first ever winner of the Sports Journalists Federation of India's Cricket Writer of the Year award in 2006,[1] in August 2007,[2] She also broke the story of the formation of the Indian cricket board's (BCCI) plans to create what would later be called the Indian Premier League (IPL) for cricket.[3]
Wade was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in August 1975, but settled with her family in New Delhi. She studied at Carmel Convent in Delhi's Diplomatic Enclave before studying at Hindu College, University of Delhi for a BA (Hons) degree in political science.
She worked briefly with the Asian Age in 1996, before moving to The Pioneer, where she covered the environment, gender and development beats, reporting on Earth Summit II from the United Nations in New York in 1997.
From mid-1996 to 1998, she wrote one of India's first weekly web columns in a mainline daily, called "Surfer's Diary".
Sports journalism
Wade also wrote occasionally for the sports section, but became a full-time sports journalist only when she moved first to the Asian Age (mid-1998-1999) and then The Indian Express (1999 to early 2001). In April 2001, she moved to the Hindustan Times to set up the Sunday team's section on sport.
Subsequently, as part of the HT sports desk, she was an investigative sports reporter, and then as a writer, while covering cricket in eight countries.
For forty-five days in Karachi, Lahore, Multan, Rawalpindi-Islamabad and Peshawar during India's tour of Pakistan in 2004 saw her become a contributing author to a book on that tour. Her writing from this tour is also part of the course-work for Delhi University's first-year 'Fluency in English' curriculum.[4]