He/him | Associate Editor at Hindustan Times | Ex: The Ken, Scroll | 🐱🚴🏽‍♂️🤿🌱

Interview

What was your first job as a journalist?

Correspondent at CricketCountry.com

Have you ever used a typewriter?

Unfortunately, no.

Who's your favorite fictional journalist?

Tintin

What does it mean to be a journalist?

Asking a lot of questions, telling a lot of stories.

How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?

By email.

What tools and software do you use to do your job?

Dictaphone, phone tripod, DSLR; Wordpress, CMS, Tweetdeck, Hootsuite

What's your favorite social network?

Twitter

Why did you become a journalist?

Because I liked sports and I liked telling stories.

Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?

Yes, I was a writer.

What story are you most proud of writing or working on?

My story on how the relationship between Indian cricketers and the journalists covering them went south over the years.

What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?

There are no free lunches in journalism.

What's your favorite drink?

Red wine

When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?

In bed reading a book

Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?

The Guardian

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