Kaveri Kalanidhi
Age: 37 years
Remuneration for 2008: Rs 32.41 crore (Rs million)
Designation: Joint managing director, Sun TV Network
Group company: Sun TV Network
Other companies: Sun Pictures, Sun Direct, 20 television channels including Sun TV, Udaya TV, Gemini TV, Surya TV and Surjo TV, 45 FM radio stations including Suryan FM, S FM and Red FM, two Tamil newspapers including Dinakaran and four weekly Tamil magazines including Kungumum. It also runs a philanthropic organisation, Sun Foundation
Background: Kaveri Kalanidhi responsible for deciding the content mix on Sun TV's various channels and monitoring viewer feedback. She assists in the selection of anchors and newscasters. She is on the board of trustees of Sun Foundation and supervises its day-to-day functioning.
Kaveri has a bachelor's degree in arts from University of Madras, Chennai. She was appointed joint managing director of the company on December 15, 2005. Kalanidhi and Kaveri were married in 1991.
Image: (Inset) Kaveri Kalanidi, joint managing director, Sun TV Network. An old lady walks alongside a 'direct to home' (DTH) dish antenna installed outside a village house to watch television. | Photograph: Deshakalyan Chowdhury/AFP/Getty Images
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