Anita Anand is a British radio and television presenter and journalist born in London in the United Kingdom. Her parents were Hindus from the North West Frontier of Pakistan bordering on Afghanistan. She considers her background to have been \"soupy\"; while her parents had an arranged marriage, she values her sense of freedoms from having grown up in a western culture. She has been European Head of News and Current Affairs for Zee TV, an international satellite and cable television station and was one of the youngest TV news editors in the UK at the age of 25.[1] Anand presented the talk show The Big Debate in front of a live audience and was political correspondent for Zee TV presenting the Raj Britannia series - 31 documentaries chronicling the political aspirations of the Asian community in the most marginal constituencies in 1997. While Anita Rani was presenting the show as a covering presenter in September 2007 it was announced on the programme that Anita Anand was away becau... more