Fatima Mahdi Karan is on a much-needed sabbatical after being a senior anchor and producer for Network 18 since 2005. While at CNN IBN and CNBC-TV18, she anchored daily hard news shows as well as special programming around the Indian Budget, the Luxury Summit and the India Art Fair. Before media, she was a banker in London. She holds both Economics and International Relations degrees from Boston University, MA, USA as well as a Masters in Diplomacy Law and Business. She recently won the FICCI Young Women’s Achiever Award for Media. Fatima is passionate about Indian contemporary and modern Indian art and jumped on the opportunity to contribute to TAKE on art.