What was your first job as a journalist?
Business reporting
Have you ever used a typewriter?
Never
How is social media changing news?
Social media has become an important tool to reach out with news to people. As a journalist we are constantly learning and upgrading our skills
Who's your favorite fictional journalist?
Will McAvoy, Murphy Brown
What does it mean to be a journalist?
A huge sense of responsibility.
How do you prefer to be pitched on stories?
Email
What tools and software do you use to do your job?
Word document to write, Google to research, voice recorders to record interviews, video apps to do mobile journalism such as filmicpro, kinemaster to edit and all social media platforms to share the stories and also reach out to the sources at times.
What's your favorite social network?
If you mean social media network: it is Instagram
Who do you wish followed you?
Sources, people who would like to share story ideas, issues they would like to be reported on. NGOs, PR
Why did you become a journalist?
To be the voice of people
Did you work for your high school newspaper? If so, what did you do there?
No
What story are you most proud of writing or working on?
Story from Darjeeling on climate crisis and rise in pesticides usage in the tea gardens
What advice can you offer to aspiring journalists?
Read and adapt to new skills
When's the best time to pitch you?
Morning
What's the best pitch you ever got?
Climate crisis in the hills
What's the worst pitch you ever got?
Someone reached out asking me to do MSME stories with a meager pay of 50 paise per word for 500 words stories
What's your favorite drink?
Hot chocolate
When you're not at a computer, where are you most likely to be?
Books, yoga, painting something
Aside from your own, what's your favorite publication to read?
Guardian, The New York Times
