What was your first job as a journalist?
Never worked as a full time journalist
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Never
How is social media changing news?
Making it very difficult to tell fact from opinion.
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Manu Joseph
What does it mean to be a journalist?
You have to really understand a subject to write about it and put it out in the public domain.
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
On mail
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
The MS Office suite; occasionally Canva
What's your favorite social network?
X formerly Twitter
Who do you wish followed you?
Opinion Editors; Policy commentators; Business Leaders; Startup founders; Corporate Strategists.
Why did you become a journalist?
It's great to learn about new things
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
Editor of my college (St. Xavier's College, Mumbai) literary mag called The Bibliodelic
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
Issues that can change perceptions
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
How to do groundwork for an industry story
When's the best time to pitch you?
Weekends
What's the best pitch you ever got?
Can't recollect
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
None
What's your favorite drink?
Chikmagalur Arabica coffee with a dash of milk
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
At the Gym
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
The Economist;
What's the most common misperception about your beat?
None
