PRESENTERS from India

Top 3

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Indian Presenters of all time. This list of famous Indian Presenters is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

1. Ramdev (b. 1965)

With an HPI of 45.81, Ramdev is the most famous Indian Presenter.  His biography has been translated into 27 different languages on wikipedia.

Ramdev (born Ram Kisan Yadav; between 1965—1975), known also by the prefix Baba, is an Indian yoga guru, businessman and brand ambassador for Patanjali Ayurved. He is primarily known for being a proponent of yoga and ayurveda in India. Ramdev has been organizing and conducting large yoga camps since 2002 and broadcasting his yoga classes on various TV channels. He co-founded Patanjali Ayurved and Patanjali Yogpeeth with his colleague Balkrishna in 2006. Ramdev has received criticism over his comments related to modern medicine, yoga, and ayurveda. Ramdev is aligned with the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on a number of issues. In 2011–2012, he led protests against corruption in India and advocated for the repatriation of black money held in foreign banks. In April 2022, The Indian Express listed Ramdev as the 78th most powerful Indian.

2. Ravish Kumar (b. 1974)

With an HPI of 32.72, Ravish Kumar is the 2nd most famous Indian Presenter.  His biography has been translated into 20 different languages.

Ravish Kumar (born Ravish Kumar Pandey; 5 December 1974) is an Indian journalist, author, media personality and YouTuber. He was the Senior Executive Editor of NDTV India. He hosted a number of programmes including the channel's flagship weekday show Prime Time, Hum Log, Ravish Ki Report, and Des Ki Baat. Kumar has twice been conferred with Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism Award for the Best Journalist of the Year and became the fifth Indian journalist to receive the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 2019.

3. Barkha Dutt (b. 1971)

With an HPI of 25.67, Barkha Dutt is the 3rd most famous Indian Presenter.  Her biography has been translated into 19 different languages.

Barkha Dutt is an Indian television journalist and author. She has been a reporter and news anchor at NDTV and Tiranga TV. She currently runs her own digital news channel called 'MoJo Story'. Dutt was part of NDTV's team for 21 years, until she left the channel in January 2017. She emerged as a prominent figure after her frontline war reporting on the Kargil Conflict between India and Pakistan in 1999. Dutt has won many national and international awards, including the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian honour. Dutt was one of the journalists taped in the Radia tapes controversy.