Manish Sahi
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Manish Sahi was born in London and educated in boarding schools in Nanital in the foothills of the Himalayas and Grammar Schools in England.He then spent a further few years living in Gorakhpur, India on the border of Nepal,where he spent a lot of time crossing the border to Lumbini the birth place of Buddha. On returning to England, he did his hotel management and a post grad in management from University of Westminster. He then moved back to Delhi to source antiques, while busking to the songs of Led Zeppelin, Floyd,Dylan .It was here that he joined All India Radio as the voice of rock, and the "Wicked Hour", a late night show, these shows gained him a cult following, which he later repeated with his travel shows. He also presented the drive time and evening shows, as well as the jazz and country music shows. He started the bilingual drivetime show "Citilights" which is still a popular show today, other shows included "Music on the Rocks" "Campus Rock", "Music mix" and "All that Jazz".
He also joined the biggest commercial station Times FM owned by the Times of India (TOI) newspaper group and now called Radio Mirchi, here he presented a wide variety of shows including the weekend breakfast shows with VJ Gaurav Kapur and TV newsreader Shabnam Dutta whom he later married. Manish Sahi also wrote various columns for Here Delhi and a music column for the Times of India as well as contributing to a host of other newspapers and magazines. He was also the music reviewer and critic for the now defuct website "Now -India .com"
In 2002 Manish Sahi and Shabnam Dutta Sahi (Shabbi) moved to London, where they joined Asian radio station Sunrise Radio. Manish did a course in acting for performance accredited to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (LAMDA) in which he gained a distinction , and in 2005 Manish went back to India to work on a documentary on Indian villages, and to work on a script for 'Moondust Films'. Shabbi continued on Sunrise radio as Sonia Dutta, where she presented the top twenty and is widely acknowledged as a leading bollywood expert. In 2006 she sang the title track on the Indian concept album Lady Chatterjee by Sawan Dutta.
Since 2004 both Manish Sahi and Shabnam have made guest appearances on All India Radio's new year celebrations.
