Aug 2024 – Dec 2024 · 4 mos · India

• As NDTV's AI Editor, I tell stories and curate conversations that help explain AI in India and how it influences people's lives and work. I also started the AI newsletter, Nothing Artificial About It, with NDTV.

Jun 2024 – Jun 2024 · 0 mo

Jan 2021 – Dec 2021 · 11 mos · India

• My role involves telling deeply reported stories for The Times of India readers

Aug 2019 – Mar 2020 · 7 mos · Bangalore

• I'm transitioning away from my entrepreneurial journey with FactorDaily to work with Network18's CNBCTV18, MoneyControl, News18, and other platforms. The role involves leading a newly created team, and making sense of technology and disruption by telling stories across different formats and creating new products and engagement models.

Dec 2015 – Present · 10 yrs 3 mos · Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

• FactorDaily is a nonprofit journalism lab that combines learning with doing. We are a tiny, slow, and human-centric journalism lab which focuses on a few topics as multi-year projects, staying away from news cycles. With our Fellowship Program, we help journalists and non-journalists tell stories that matter in society. Our formats of storytelling include physical spaces, audio, animation and text. We tell stories that travel from, or to, the communities.

May 2014 – Dec 2015 · 1 yr 7 mos · Bengaluru Area, India

• Helped build ETTech, a new digital home for all things tech and startup for the readers of Economic Times.

Nov 2013 – May 2014 · 6 mos

• Tracking startups, innovations, technology across India and South Asia

Sep 2012 – Nov 2013 · 1 yr 2 mos

Nov 2008 – Mar 2012 · 3 yrs 4 mos

• Led ET's tech coverage out of Bangalore and established the paper's first vertical news team that became the foundation for creation of similar teams across the country. Broke the biggest stories in Indian IT and worked with the team to make ET the best platform for technology news and insights.

May 2008 – Oct 2008 · 5 mos · Bangalore

• Managed a team of writers focused on IT's role across top Indian enterprises, narrating stories that highlight contribution of CIOs in helping their businesses transform and solve complex challenges

Dec 2006 – Apr 2008 · 1 yr 4 mos

• Joined this paper few months prior to its launch in February 2007, and started with being Mint's lead IT correspondent based in Bangalore. Moved to New Delhi in September 2007, after Mint offered to track the telecom sector, including government policy, regulations, corporates and consumer interests.

Oct 2005 – Dec 2006 · 1 yr 2 mos

• · Involved with the concept to launch and further evolution of India’s first fortnightly focused on the business benefits of technology—The CTO Forum.
• Learning: The magazine’s focus on business and management has helped me to become a better business journalist and the opportunity to establish the bureau has enabled me to become a good team leader.

Nov 2002 – Oct 2005 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• India Correspondent for Singapore-based and US-headquartered United Business Media.
• Tracking the Indian technology industry for Asia Computer Weekly, Network Computing Asia and Intelligent Enterprise Asia from November 2002 to November 2005.
• Learning: Started writing stories of regional and global significance and also gained a macro-view of the entire Indian IT industry.

Dec 1999 – Nov 2002 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• Senior Correspondent at Express Computer Bangalore, an IT weekly from the Indian Express Newspapers (Bombay) Ltd. from April 2001 to October 2002.
• Learning: Developed contacts in the local software industry and gained better understanding about the MNCs like Microsoft, Intel, Sun Microsystems and Oracle by regularly following them.