Some interviews I conducted as Managing Editor of afaqs.com

That's me interviewing a media biggie at an afaqs event at Mumbai in 2019. Read the accompanying article here.

In conversation with a marketing honcho at an afaqs event in Delhi in 2019. Read the full story here.

I moderated a panel discussion for a Singapore based media association, in 2021.

Some panel discussions I moderated for The Economic Times - Times of India

Mumbai, 2022 (my bit begins at 23:28)

Delhi, 2022 (I come in at 24:48)


Delhi, 2022 (start watching at 20:50)


Here is my author page on afaqs.com, India's most trusted b2b publication in the advertising, marketing and media space. I joined as senior correspondent in 2010 and ended my stint as managing editor in 2022. The link has all my bylines over the course of 12 years. Business journalism taught me how to be economical with the written word.

Here is my author page on IndiaCurrents.com, a Bay Area-based publication that amplifies the voice of the South Asian diaspora in California. Since November 2022, I've written several human interest stories for this dot com; recurring themes include immigration and identity. My tryst with community journalism has been wonderful.

Interim News Editor - Palo Alto Online (California, 2023):

Responsible for editing hyperlocal news publications PaloAltoOnline.com and RedwoodCityPulse.com, reputed platforms from the stable of Embarcadero Media.

The work: editing articles, interviewing people, writing articles, curating the daily newsletter, managing reporters, handling the content management system (CMS) at the back-end and overall homepage aesthetic at the front-end. Also contributed to the group’s legacy print newspaper brand Palo Alto Weekly. 

Temporary role with a steep and fulfilling learning curve. 

Worked out of the company's Palo Alto office in California. 

Language: AP Style English. 

Fiction and Poetry Publications:

Literary magazines that have published by fiction and poetry include Lit.202 (Cheltenham, UK), Danse Macabre (Las Vegas, USA), Piker Press (California, USA), The Aleph Review (Lahore, Pakistan), Papers Publishing (New York, USA), Vocivia Magazine (Philadelphia, USA), San Antonio Review (Texas, USA), Cowboy Jamboree Magazine (South Carolina, USA), Zooanthology (Virginia, USA), Sad Goose Cooperative (Minneapolis, USA), ZVONA i NARI (Croatia), The Bangalore Review (India), Penumbra Literary and Art Journal (California, USA), The Unconventional Courier (Northeast Coast, USA), Wind-up Mice (San Francisco, USA), Paragraph Planet (Brighton, UK), The Hooghly Review (India), One Art: Journal of Poetry (Philadelphia, USA), Oranges Journal (Bristol, UK), Sein und Werden (UK), Tap into Poetry (Manchester, UK), Iceblink Creative Writing Magazine (Los Angeles, USA), Six Word Memoirs (London), Write City Magazine (Chicago Writers Association), Bottlecap Press (Los Angeles, USA), Alien Buddha Press (Phoenix, Arizona - USA), Roi Faineant Press (USA), and most recently, Museum of Americana (USA), among others.