Our team

Grace Hartwell

Canberra

australia · indo pacific · aukus

Based in Canberra, Grace Hartwell covers Australia, the Indo-Pacific balance, AUKUS, and the Quad from close range. Her reporting keeps a particular eye on how Australian defence and technology choices intersect with India's maritime and strategic priorities.

Shreya Pillai

Canberra

australian politics · indo pacific · quad

Shreya Pillai is our Canberra correspondent, covering Australian politics and the Indo-Pacific policy decisions that increasingly put Delhi and Canberra on the same page. She reports with an eye on what the Quad is actually doing versus what it announces.

Neel Varkey

Dublin

ireland · europe · political economy

Neel Varkey is our Dublin correspondent, covering Irish politics and the wider European cultural conversation. His column connects Ireland's distinctive political economy — small, open, post-colonial — to the strategic choices facing comparable states.

Niamh O'Connor

Dublin

ireland · european union · tech regulation

Based in Dublin, Niamh O'Connor covers Ireland, the European Union from a small-country vantage, and the evolving EU tech-regulation regime that now reaches every Indian platform doing business in Europe. Her reporting is data-led and sceptical of easy narratives.

Anjali Sookram

Kingston

caribbean · jamaica · diaspora

Anjali Sookram is our Kingston correspondent, covering Jamaica and the wider Caribbean. She pays particular attention to the Indian-origin communities — Trinidad, Guyana, Suriname — whose histories connect Indian indenture to the shape of the modern Caribbean.

Chantelle Williams

Kingston

caribbean · small island states · climate vulnerability

Based in Kingston, Chantelle Williams covers the Caribbean, the small island developing states, and the climate-vulnerability question that defines their diplomacy. She writes from inside a region that the global system treats as a footnote and the climate treats as the frontline.

Nur Aisyah Rahman

Kuala Lumpur

malaysia · southeast asia · palm oil

Based in Kuala Lumpur, Nur Aisyah Rahman covers Malaysia, Southeast Asia, the palm oil economy, and Islamic finance — beats that sit at the centre of India's trade relationships with the Muslim world. Her reporting is long-range and pattern-seeking.

Selvam Raju

Kuala Lumpur

malaysia · southeast asia · diaspora

Selvam Raju is our Kuala Lumpur correspondent, covering Malaysian politics and the country's large Indian-origin community. He writes on the domestic political realignments of a crucial Southeast Asian state and their implications for Indian investors and diplomats.

Adaeze Okonkwo

Lagos

west africa · nigeria · energy

Based in Lagos, Adaeze Okonkwo covers West Africa, Nigeria's energy and trade ties with India, and the Indian business diaspora across the region. Her columns read Africa from inside, not as a receiving market for somebody else's story.

Adaora Nathan

Lagos

west africa · nigeria · sahel

Adaora Nathan is our West Africa correspondent based in Lagos, reporting on Nigeria, Ghana, and the Sahel. Her coverage tracks both the political turbulence and the commercial ties that bind the region to India.

Ananya Bose

London

royals · global elite · high society

Ananya Bose covers the world's royal families and global elite — the Windsors, the Gulf royals, the old-money circles that still shape how power looks and moves. She writes from London with a Tatler sensibility and an Indian reader's healthy scepticism of inherited privilege.

Eleanor Fitzgerald

London

uk politics · europe · commonwealth

Based in London, Eleanor Fitzgerald covers the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth, and the India–UK trade and diaspora relationship. Her beat runs from Westminster to the City, with regular dispatches from Brussels when EU decisions touch Indian interests.

Indira Das

London

uk politics · europe · india uk

Indira Das is our London correspondent, covering UK politics, the European diplomatic circuit, and the India–UK relationship as it gets remade in the wake of Brexit and a Labour-led government. She reports from Westminster with Delhi in view.

Wanjiru Mwangi

Nairobi

east africa · india africa · infrastructure

Based in Nairobi, Wanjiru Mwangi covers East Africa, the India–Africa trade and development partnership, and the infrastructure corridors that Indian firms are building across the continent. Her reporting is grounded in the institutional question: what makes a development partnership last?

Zubeida Ansari

Nairobi

east africa · kenya · diaspora

Zubeida Ansari is our Nairobi correspondent, reporting on East Africa — elections, infrastructure, counter-terrorism, and the Indian diaspora's long commercial presence in the region. Her beat is the whole continental East.

Rebecca Thornton

Ottawa

canada · diaspora · immigration

Based in Ottawa, Rebecca Thornton covers Canadian politics, the India–Canada diaspora relationship, and immigration policy across North America. Her work returns often to the human ledger of immigration: who moves, who stays, and what each country loses and gains in the bargain.

Savitri Bhatia

Ottawa

canada · ottawa · india canada

Savitri Bhatia is our Ottawa correspondent, covering Canadian politics and the India–Canada relationship as it moves through a strained and consequential period. She reports with attention to the Punjabi-Canadian diaspora whose internal debates often shape the bilateral mood.

Pranay Govender

Pretoria

south africa · southern africa · diaspora

Pranay Govender is our Pretoria correspondent, reporting on South Africa and the broader southern African region. He writes with particular attention to the Indian-origin communities whose history in the region runs deeper than most coverage acknowledges.

Anita Rajaraman

Singapore

singapore · asean · southeast asia

Anita Rajaraman is our Singapore correspondent, covering Singapore itself and the wider Southeast Asian business and diplomatic circuit. Her reporting tracks ASEAN's shifting consensus and the India-in-ASEAN question.

Mei Lin Tan

Singapore

asean · singapore · finance

Based in Singapore, Mei Lin Tan covers ASEAN, the Singapore financial centre, and the trade and technology corridor that runs from Delhi and Mumbai through Southeast Asia. She writes on markets with a narrative hand.

Catherine Whitman

Washington, DC

us politics · india us relations · capitol hill

Based in Washington, DC, Catherine Whitman covers US politics and the architecture of the India–US relationship from the Capitol, the White House, and the think-tank corridors of K Street. Her reporting tracks how decisions in Washington translate into consequences in Delhi.

Aaditya Nair

Wellington

new zealand · pacific · diaspora

Aaditya Nair is our Wellington correspondent, covering New Zealand politics and the country's Indian-origin community, which has grown to become a distinctive civic presence. He reports on a small country whose decisions travel further than many imagine.

Isabelle Fletcher

Wellington

new zealand · pacific islands · small state diplomacy

Based in Wellington, Isabelle Fletcher covers New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, and the diplomacy of small states — where the absence of size forces a clarity about interests that larger capitals often skip. She writes on climate, migration, and the Indo-Pacific through a Pacific lens.

Aditya Venkataraman

Chennai

civilisation history · global politics

Aditya Venkataraman is a Chennai-based analyst covering world affairs and civilisational currents. His work combines long-arc historical reasoning with sharp geopolitical commentary.

Ananya Ghosh

democracy · authoritarianism · russia

Ananya Ghosh writes on the global contest between democratic and authoritarian systems, with a focus on Russia, Eastern Europe, and the long shadow of Soviet history. Her essays bring historical depth to the question of what India owes, and does not owe, to the older democracies of the West.

Arjun Malhotra

geopolitics · globalization · foreign policy

Arjun Malhotra writes on globalization, technology diplomacy, and the strategic arithmetic of a multipolar world. His column ranges from Delhi's boardrooms to West Asian capitals, with a particular interest in how Indian interests are shaped by the friction between great powers.

Claire Alderton

alliance systems · institutional diplomacy · multilateral order

Claire Alderton covers alliance systems, institutional diplomacy, and the hard questions about when the international order works and when it fractures. Writing from San Francisco, she brings a practitioner’s eye to multilateral negotiations, NATO dynamics, and the evolving role of middle powers — with particular attention to where India’s interests intersect with the architecture of Western alliances.

Devika Nair

diplomacy · foreign service · state craft

Devika Nair covers diplomacy as a daily discipline — the communiqués, the red lines, the handshakes and the absence of them. She tracks how India's foreign-service establishment manoeuvres through a crowded and increasingly unforgiving international landscape.

Karan Chauhan

intelligence · foreign policy · covert action

Karan Chauhan covers foreign affairs and the shadow world of intelligence services, where policy is made before it is announced. His reporting tracks the back-channel diplomacy that often decides questions of war and peace long before any official statement reaches the public.

Kunal Banerjee

Mumbai

global order · multipolarity · indian foreign policy

Kunal Banerjee writes on the new world disorder — the fraying of the rules-based system the West built between 1945 and 2001, and what an India with genuine agency does inside the wreckage. His essays are long-form and argumentative.

Lakshmi Iyer

middle east · north africa · foreign affairs

Lakshmi Iyer has reported from West Asia and North Africa for two decades. Her writing draws on a dense network of sources across the region to explain how its fault lines are moving — and why each tremor matters for India's energy, diaspora, and security interests.

Meera Raghavan

international affairs · global order · diplomacy

Meera Raghavan writes a standing column on international affairs from Delhi, tracking how the logic of globalization is being rewritten in real time. She is particularly interested in what the fraying of the post-1945 order means for middle powers like India.

Priya Venkatesh

foreign policy · washington politics · long form

Priya Venkatesh writes long-form political analysis with a foreign-policy spine, focusing on how domestic politics in Washington and other major capitals shapes decisions that land in Delhi. Her work is characterized by patient reporting and sustained argument.

Raghav Pillai

New Delhi

geopolitics · diplomacy · great powers

Raghav Pillai is a New Delhi-based foreign affairs analyst covering great-power diplomacy and the architecture of global order. His reporting tracks the intersections of strategy, economics, and statecraft.

Robert Haines

foreign policy · multilateral order · us india relations

Robert Haines writes from New York on the architecture of global order — alliances, institutions, and the diplomatic machinery that holds them together or lets them fall apart. A student of how great powers manage their commitments, his columns track the distance between what Washington promises and what it delivers, and what that gap means for partners like India.

Rohan Bhattacharya

international affairs · great power competition · global order

Rohan Bhattacharya is a foreign-affairs essayist whose work focuses on the shifting order of the twenty-first century — the rise of the global south, the retreat of liberalism, and the grammar of great-power competition. He returns often to the question of where India fits in the world being built.

Shivani Kapoor

New Delhi

indian foreign service · diplomacy · bilateral negotiation

Shivani Kapoor writes on Indian diplomacy from the inside — the cable traffic, the bilateral negotiation, the long career shapes of Foreign Service officers who quietly built India's reach across five continents. Her beat is the profession as practiced.

Vikram Deshpande

europe · diaspora · foreign affairs

Vikram Deshpande is a foreign-affairs writer whose reporting is rooted in European capitals and regularly reaches into South Asia's diaspora communities. He argues that Europe's choices — on China, on Russia, on migration — are read closely in Delhi for what they signal about the wider order.

Aditya Mukherjee

indian politics · culture · media

Aditya Mukherjee writes a wide-ranging column that moves between politics, culture, and the ways power presents itself in both. He has run magazines and knows how to make serious subjects read quickly without flattening them.

Alok Prasad

Allahabad

colonial history · british raj · ias history

Alok Prasad is an Allahabad-based India correspondent covering colonial history, the British Raj, and IAS institutional history. His writing draws on the archival depth and narrative sweep of William Dalrymple.

Amitabh Ghosh

Kolkata

nationalist history · biography · archival research

Amitabh Ghosh writes narrative history — biographies of Indian nationalists, archival recovery of figures the mainstream textbooks left out, the contested record of the freedom struggle. His beat is the India that 1947 almost was.

Ankita Sen

Kolkata

india narrative · public history · political thought

Ankita Sen writes on the India story — how the country tells itself about itself, and how that self-understanding has shifted across seven decades. Her work sits at the seam of history and current affairs, with particular attention to the language public figures use about the nation.

Arjun Deshmukh

Mumbai

ias bureaucracy · civil service reform · empanelment

Arjun Deshmukh writes about Indian bureaucracy the way a forensic accountant reads a balance sheet — looking for what is missing. His investigative instincts were sharpened covering defence procurement scandals, but he found the richest material in the mundane: empanelment lists, central deputation rosters, the revolving door between ministries and post-retirement sinecures. He believes every IAS officer's career tells a story, and most of those stories have never been told honestly.

Chandan Sarkar

indian politics · political biography · hindi belt

Chandan Sarkar writes political biography in its most useful form — using the life of a figure to explain the institutions that made them possible. He has written on prime ministers and party leaders, and reports closely on the Hindi belt.

Deepak Raina

Jammu

kashmir · internal displacement · conflict history

Deepak Raina covers Kashmir — the politics, the displacement, the security landscape, and the long memory of communities shaped by conflict. His reporting draws on first-person testimony and archival detail, and he writes from the conviction that the Kashmiri Pandit story is not a footnote in India's modern history but a central chapter in how the republic navigates identity, territory, and belonging.

Dhananjay Nambiar

interviews · indian politics · public intellectuals

Dhananjay Nambiar conducts long-form interview journalism with political figures, jurists, and public intellectuals. His columns draw on the interviews to extend arguments that begin on camera.

Diya Raman

data journalism · public policy · social indicators

Diya Raman writes data-driven analysis of Indian public policy — education outcomes, public health, crime data, budget composition. Her work brings numeracy to debates that too often run on assertion alone.

Farah Siddiqui

indian politics · identity · communal affairs

Farah Siddiqui writes on Indian politics with a focus on identity, community, and the management of majorities and minorities. Her essays move between the national and the regional, tracking how political language gets remade by each election cycle.

Harsh Vardhan

Delhi

hindu nationalism · indian right · political philosophy

Harsh Vardhan is a Delhi-based India correspondent covering Hindu nationalism, the Indian right, and political philosophy. His writing draws on the ideological clarity and civilisational perspective of Swapan Dasgupta.

Isha Nambiar

Mangalore

domestic fiction · ethical dilemmas · narrative journalism

Isha Nambiar is a Mangalore-based correspondent covering ethical dilemmas in everyday life, family structures, and the moral complexity that shapes Indian communities.

Kamla Rao

indian politics · delhi insider · political analysis

Kamla Rao writes on the texture of Indian political life — the whispers, the rivalries, the quietly shifting alliances that end up shaping government decisions. Her column has become required reading for those who want to understand what is actually happening behind official statements.

Krishan Rao

New Delhi

elections · electoral politics · campaigns

Krishan Rao covers Indian electoral politics — the campaign trails, the state-level arithmetic, the alliance calculations that decide who governs and why. His beat is what happens between manifestos and the verdict.

Meera Srinivasan

Bengaluru

ias bureaucracy · governance reform · property returns

Meera Srinivasan covers the Indian steel frame with a blowtorch. A former research fellow at a governance think tank, she brings data-driven rigour to questions most beat reporters accept at face value: why does this officer move every eleven months? Why has this district collector never filed a property return? Her writing carries the cold fury of someone who has read too many Right to Information responses that say "information not available."

Meghna Bora

anthropology · state capacity · environment

Meghna Bora writes on the Indian state from the ground up — the bureaucrats, the forest officers, the communities at the edge of state capacity. Her columns read like field reports from places metropolitan coverage rarely reaches.

Mihir Kaushik

institutions · democracy · political theory

Mihir Kaushik writes on Indian democracy as an institutional problem — what makes courts, parliaments, universities, and agencies work or fail. His columns are written for readers who think the quality of institutions is the decisive question of the next decade.

Padma Iyer

Delhi

media politics · interviews · political commentary

Padma Iyer is a Delhi-based India correspondent covering media politics, interviews, and political commentary. Her writing draws on the probing interview style and institutional knowledge of Rajdeep Sardesai.

Pooja Shah

indian politics · political parties · digital campaigns

Pooja Shah reports on Indian political parties as institutions — their funding, their networks, their enforcement mechanisms. Her work has set the agenda on digital political warfare and the quiet infrastructures that drive election campaigns.

Priya Venkatraman

Bengaluru

healthcare · mortality · personal essay

Priya Venkatraman is a Bengaluru-based health and society correspondent covering the Indian healthcare system, medical ethics, and the human dimensions of illness and care.

Raghav Srinivasan

New Delhi

indian politics · elections · bjp

Raghav Srinivasan covers Indian political campaigns, party strategy, and electoral dynamics with an appreciation for institutional discipline and ideological conviction. A student of conservative political thought, he writes with precision about the organizational machinery that shapes Indian democracy.

Rajiv Kulkarni

indian politics · governance · strategic affairs

Rajiv Kulkarni has covered Indian politics for three decades, moving between Delhi's corridors and the country's state capitals. His column is read for its institutional memory — the ability to place today's political contests inside longer arcs that most daily reporting cannot see.

Ritika Bose

political strategy · parties · indian politics

Ritika Bose writes on the mechanics of Indian political parties — messaging, organisation, the gap between what candidates say and what they actually do once they win. Her analysis is operational rather than ideological.

Rudra Bhatt

indian politics · foreign policy

Rudra Bhatt writes on Indian politics, foreign policy, and the pressures on the press at the intersection of the two. His column is read closely by those who disagree with it and those who rely on it.

Shubhra Mishra

Allahabad

colonial administration · district governance · police history

Shubhra Mishra is an Allahabad-based India correspondent covering colonial administration, district governance, and police history. Her writing draws on the social-history approach and fine detail of Ramachandra Guha.

Suresh Ambedkar

elections · democratic theory · political analysis

Suresh Ambedkar combines electoral data with a theorist's eye for what majorities and minorities mean in a democracy the size of India's. He writes for readers who want numbers and argument in the same paragraph.

Sushma Bhatnagar

indian politics · elections · political history

Sushma Bhatnagar has covered every general election since the 1980s. Her writing brings the long view to Indian politics — the slow accumulation of trends that look like surprises only to those who arrived recently.

Vaishali Menon

New Delhi

political insider · pmo · cabinet politics

Vaishali Menon writes on the architecture of Indian political decision-making — the Cabinet rooms, the PMO, the party working committees where the public outcome is actually negotiated. Her work runs on long-cultivated sources and archival reconstruction of turning-point moments.

Vikram Rajan

New Delhi

ias bureaucracy · government accountability · civil service

Vikram Rajan has spent fifteen years tracking the Indian Administrative Service — its transfers, its empanelments, its quiet deals. He writes about the permanent government with the same scepticism most journalists reserve for politicians: the career bureaucrat who collects departments like stamps, the lateral entrant who never stood a chance, the property return that never quite adds up. His column treats every appointment order as a document worth reading twice.

Vikrant Mehta

Delhi

kashmir · conflict reporting · displacement

Vikrant Mehta is a Delhi-based India correspondent covering Kashmir, conflict reporting, and displacement. His writing draws on the personal testimony and political acuity of Aatish Taseer.

Aarti Joshi

platforms · tech power · silicon valley

Aarti Joshi writes on the political economy of platforms — how a handful of companies ended up mediating public life, and what Indian policymakers and users should be demanding of them. Her interviews are read for their refusal of corporate spin.

Abhinav Kothari

tech policy · regulation · antitrust

Abhinav Kothari covers the intersection of Washington and the technology industry — regulation, antitrust, the lobbying that shapes both. His column places American tech policy inside a conversation Indian regulators are also having.

Anand Menon

space · isro · launch industry

Anand Menon writes on spaceflight — the launches, the failures, the geopolitical contest for orbit. He tracks ISRO in the context of a crowded and increasingly commercial sector, and writes for readers who want the engineering details explained.

Anuja Mehta

Bangalore

ai policy · technology society · future of work

Anuja Mehta covers technology and society from Bangalore — where AI policy, platform regulation, and the human-consequences of the next wave of automation intersect with India's development priorities. Her beat is the long view: what the next decade of technology does to the work people do and the state's ability to plan for it.

Archana Hegde

Bengaluru

tech biography · innovation · silicon valley

Archana Hegde is a Bengaluru-based technology correspondent covering tech biography, innovation, and Silicon Valley culture. Her writing draws on the unflinching access journalism and narrative precision of Kara Swisher.

Dhruv Acharya

artificial intelligence · machine learning · tech policy

Dhruv Acharya covers artificial intelligence — the labs, the business models, the policy fights. His reporting takes AI's claims seriously enough to test them, and skeptically enough to place them against the record.

Gaurav Deshpande

Pune

innovation management · creative leadership · silicon valley

Gaurav Deshpande is a Pune-based technology and business correspondent covering creative leadership, innovation management, and the organisational cultures that produce breakthrough products.

Ishaan Roy

platform governance · content moderation · tech policy

Ishaan Roy reports on platform governance — moderation, regulation, and the grey zones where the two fail to meet. He writes for readers who want the mechanics of how platforms actually make decisions, not the press releases about them.

Kunal Raheja

cybersecurity · long form · criminal groups

Kunal Raheja writes long-form reportage on cybersecurity — ransomware gangs, state-backed intrusions, the industry that grew up to defend against them. His work takes the technical details seriously without losing the human story.

Nandita Rao

Hyderabad

innovation · tech history · research institutions

Nandita Rao is a Hyderabad-based technology correspondent covering innovation ecosystems and the institutions that produce breakthroughs. Her reporting connects laboratory science to industrial strategy.

Piyush Agarwal

Delhi

tech biography · space technology · electric vehicles

Piyush Agarwal is a Delhi-based technology correspondent covering tech biography, space technology, and electric vehicles. His writing draws on the deep-access profiling and entrepreneurial insight of Ashlee Vance.

Reena Kapoor

cybersecurity · state hacking · digital espionage

Reena Kapoor writes on cybersecurity as a national-security beat — the state-backed intrusions, the zero-day markets, the defenders who never get to claim a win. She has covered major incidents affecting Indian targets and has sourcing across the ecosystem.

Sonal Choudhary

algorithmic accountability · privacy · data rights

Sonal Choudhary reports on how algorithms and data practices shape the lives of users — from credit scoring to facial recognition to the advertising that funds the open web. Her investigations have pushed policy debates across multiple jurisdictions.

Tanvi Shenoy

tech industry · startups · corporate strategy

Tanvi Shenoy writes long-form analysis of how technology companies make decisions — the org charts, the incentives, the cultures. Her work is built on patient interviews with operators rather than commentators.

Anil Varma

Chandigarh

physics · cosmology · science communication

Anil Varma is a Chandigarh-based economy and business correspondent covering physics, cosmology, and science communication. His writing draws on the poetic concision and conceptual elegance of Brian Greene.

Animesh Raut

indian business · media · culture

Animesh Raut writes about Indian business and media in a register that sits between reportage and essay. His pieces are read for their detachment from the industry's own publicity and the strong opinions that survive the scrutiny.

Arjun Sethuraman

Mumbai

digital commerce · global markets · entrepreneurship

Arjun Sethuraman is a Mumbai-based business correspondent covering digital commerce, platform economies, and the globalisation of Indian enterprise. His analysis tracks how markets adapt to technology disruption.

Arun Krishnamurthy

macroeconomics · global finance · trade

Arun Krishnamurthy writes on macroeconomics with the long lens of a central banker and the conscience of a reformer. He tracks the Indian economy against global trend lines — capital flows, monetary cycles, trade regimes — and argues for what India should be demanding from the world.

Ashok Bose

indian economy · economic policy · political economy

Ashok Bose writes on the Indian economy as a political problem — what governments can and cannot do, what interests push back, and what reforms survive the first election cycle after their introduction.

Bhavesh Patel

macroeconomics · public economics · policy

Bhavesh Patel writes on economics as public argument. His columns translate technical questions — inflation, labour markets, fiscal policy — into the terms that matter for readers who have to live with the decisions.

Deepak Varma

emerging markets · investing · comparative economics

Deepak Varma is an emerging-markets writer tracking how capital, demography, and policy reshape the economies of the global south. His reporting places India's growth story inside a comparative frame — against Brazil, Indonesia, Vietnam, and the rest.

Devika Mohan

Delhi

gender economics · work life policy · women leadership

Devika Mohan is a Delhi-based economy and business correspondent covering gender economics, work-life policy, and women in leadership. Her writing draws on the policy authority and personal candour of Anne-Marie Slaughter.

Gayatri Rao

indian economy · monetary policy · fiscal policy

Gayatri Rao writes on Indian fiscal and monetary policy with a working economist's precision. She treats the RBI and the finance ministry as institutions with their own logics and constraints, not black boxes.

Isha Chakraborty

Mumbai

business leadership · entrepreneurship · wealth

Isha Chakraborty writes on Indian business at the top of the curve — the founders building the next ten-billion-dollar companies, the family capital shaping the country's industrial base, and the financial history that explains how a five-trillion-dollar economy got here. Her beat is the business leader as subject, with the patience for the long arc of a career or an enterprise.

Kavita Sharma

Bangalore

startups · venture capital · monopoly strategy

Kavita Sharma writes on the economics of zero-to-one thinking — what it takes to build something genuinely new rather than copying what exists. Her beat spans startup strategy, venture capital, and the structural conditions that let monopolies form or fail. She tracks how the Silicon Valley playbook translates (and doesn't) when Indian founders try to run it.

Niharika Sen

development economics · poverty · inequality

Niharika Sen writes on development economics — the mechanisms that let some economies pull vast populations out of poverty and leave others stuck. She writes in a register that is accessible without being thin.

Prakash Sinha

Delhi

energy economics · industrial civilization · resource history

Prakash Sinha is a Delhi-based economy and business correspondent covering energy economics, industrial civilisation, and resource history. His writing draws on the long-arc synthesis and quantitative authority of Daniel Yergin.

Prerna Mehta

financial investigations · regulation · capital markets

Prerna Mehta reports on the plumbing of Indian finance — audits, regulators, shell structures, stock-market mechanics. Her work is motivated by the belief that transparency is the decisive input to market trust, and that watchdogs need watching.

Priyanka Hegde

Bengaluru

institutional economics · development

Priyanka Hegde is a Bengaluru-based economics correspondent covering institutional development and structural reform. Her analysis draws on comparative political economy across emerging markets.

Ravi Narayanan

indian business · corporate india · industrial policy

Ravi Narayanan has edited business desks and written a standing column on Indian capitalism for three decades. His writing is read for its measured conservatism — a willingness to puncture hype cycles without dismissing what they reveal.

Ravi Shankar

Delhi

presidential history · eisenhower · cold war politics

Ravi Shankar is a Delhi-based economy and business correspondent covering presidential history, the Eisenhower era, and cold war politics. His writing draws on the narrative authority and archival depth of Jon Meacham.

Rohit Agarwal

Mumbai

equity markets · retail investing · mutual funds

Rohit Agarwal writes on markets from the perspective of the individual investor — the person trying to make sense of Sensex movements, IPO pricing, and mutual fund returns without a Bloomberg terminal. His approach is Peter Lynch's: look at the companies you already understand, do the homework the analysts skip, and never invest in something you can't explain to a neighbour.

Ronit Khanna

finance · deals · boardrooms

Ronit Khanna writes on deal-making and high finance — the mergers, the IPOs, the boardroom moves that shape the companies Indians buy from and work for. His columns are written for an audience that includes the dealmakers themselves.

Sanjay Gupta

asian markets · corporate india · banking

Sanjay Gupta writes a sharp daily column on Asian business — banks, tycoons, listings, state capitalism. He writes for readers who treat the region's corporate news as a political story told with balance sheets.

Sudhir Menon

Mumbai

investing · stock market · financial analysis

Sudhir Menon is a Mumbai-based economy and business correspondent covering investing, stock market dynamics, and financial analysis. His writing draws on the storytelling clarity and contrarian insight of Morgan Housel.

Suresh Padmanabhan

Thiruvananthapuram

globalisation · technology disruption · adaptation

Suresh Padmanabhan is a Thiruvananthapuram-based economics correspondent covering globalisation, technology-driven disruption, and how societies adapt to accelerating change.

Arjun Bhatia

New Delhi

intelligence · raw · covert action

Arjun Bhatia writes on Indian intelligence — R&AW, the IB, their foreign-station networks and the quiet architecture by which statecraft becomes action before it becomes announcement. His beat is the institutional memory of services that rarely write their own story.

Arun Gupta

Lucknow

military history · pacific war · strategic bombing

Arun Gupta is a Lucknow-based defence and military history correspondent covering warfare, strategic doctrine, and the institutional memory of armed conflict.

Brigadier (Retd.) Harsh Saini (pen)

strategic affairs · indian military · defence policy

Harsh Saini writes on strategic affairs with direct access to India's defence establishment — the services, the research labs, the policy committees that run below the radar. His columns regularly break news that wire services pick up days later.

Colonel (Retd.) Karan Suri

Dehradun

military narrative · indian army · strategic history

Colonel (Retd.) Karan Suri writes on Indian military history in the first-person-adjacent register — close to the company commander, close to the ridge, close to the decisions that decided how a battle went. His work sits between the battlefield history and the strategic argument that came afterwards.

Colonel (Retd.) Rakesh Dhawan (pen)

indian military · defence acquisitions · border security

Rakesh Dhawan has covered the Indian military for over twenty years, from borderline skirmishes to the paperwork of major acquisitions. His reporting is written for readers who want the specifics — the platforms, the contracts, the operational picture.

Dhruv Malhotra

Chandigarh

spy thriller · counter terrorism · geopolitical fiction

Dhruv Malhotra is a Chandigarh-based defense and security correspondent covering spy thriller, counter-terrorism, and geopolitical fiction. His writing draws on the tactical authenticity and post-9/11 urgency of Brad Thor.

Gautam Mehra

Pune

military history · indian army · strategic history

Gautam Mehra writes on Indian military history — the campaigns, the command decisions, the structural choices that explain how wars were fought and how the next one might be. His work sits at the level the memoirs argue over: what happened, in what order, with what consequences.

General (Retd.) Partha Banerjee (pen)

strategic affairs · foreign policy · indo pacific

Partha Banerjee writes on Indian strategic affairs — the doctrine papers, the force-structure debates, and the slow rebalancing of the Indo-Pacific. He brings a scholar's discipline to a beat that too often relies on anonymous briefings alone.

Karan Thakur

Shimla

spy fiction · cia operations · action thriller

Karan Thakur is a Shimla-based defense and security correspondent covering spy fiction, CIA operations, and action thriller. His writing draws on the tradecraft precision and moral weight of Daniel Silva's intelligence narratives.

Meher Kaur

Chandigarh

armed forces · conflict · veterans

Meher Kaur writes on the Indian armed forces at the unit level — the soldier, the battalion, the terrain. Her reporting is rooted in long conversations with veterans and serving personnel and reads the military as a human institution rather than a weapons inventory.

Mohan Raghavan

Chennai

action adventure · maritime security · historical thriller

Mohan Raghavan is a Chennai-based defense and security correspondent covering action adventure, maritime security, and historical thriller. His writing draws on the kinetic pacing and globe-spanning scope of Lee Child's action narratives.

Nikhil Bose

Kolkata

military operations · counter terrorism · special forces

Nikhil Bose is a Kolkata-based defense and security correspondent covering military operations, counter-terrorism, and special forces. His writing draws on the precision and field-level authority of Dexter Filkins's war reporting.

Param Chopra

Chandigarh

espionage history · world war ii · intelligence

Param Chopra is a Chandigarh-based defense and security correspondent covering espionage history, World War II, and intelligence operations. His writing draws on the narrative drive and archival authority of Ben Macintyre.

Pratik Jha

Ranchi

adventure thriller · treasure hunting · maritime history

Pratik Jha is a Ranchi-based defense and security correspondent covering adventure thriller, treasure hunting, and maritime history. His writing draws on the technical detail and patriotic sweep of Tom Clancy.

Rajan Iyer

national security · cyber · nuclear

Rajan Iyer reports on national security where it intersects with technology — cyber operations, nuclear doctrine, and the long game of deterrence. His writing is built on sources developed over decades inside the national-security state.

Sheena Thomas

us military · defence policy · conflict

Sheena Thomas covers global military affairs with a particular focus on the US defence establishment and how its decisions ripple through partner countries like India. She has reported from conflict zones and from classified briefings.

Tara Bedi

terrorism · insurgency · security

Tara Bedi reports on terrorism and insurgent movements with the depth of reporting that sustained coverage of those movements requires. Her work has travelled between conflict zones and the policy conversations the conflicts generate.

Tarun Khanna

Delhi

holocaust history · world war ii · survival narrative

Tarun Khanna is a Delhi-based defense and security correspondent covering holocaust history, World War II, and survival narratives. His writing draws on the forensic moral rigour and archival depth of Timothy Snyder.

Vikas Chaudhry

indian military · china pakistan · two front

Vikas Chaudhry writes on Indian defence with a particular focus on the two-front problem — the structural questions China and Pakistan pose and what Indian planners are actually doing about them. His work is argumentative and empirical at once.

Aditi Ramachandran

New Delhi

editorial · global affairs · indian foreign policy

Aditi Ramachandran is the Editor-in-Chief of IndiaWorldEye. She leads the masthead's daily coverage of global affairs from an Indian vantage — reading the world's moving parts and what they mean for Bharat's rise. Her editorial line is unapologetically Indian: clear-eyed about the country's interests, confident about its civilisational trajectory, and insistent that India's voice belong at the centre of every global conversation it shapes.

Aniket Bhide

liberal opinion · global affairs · free speech

Aniket Bhide writes a classically liberal opinion column moving between India, Britain, and the United States. He treats liberty, pluralism, and free speech as live questions that each generation has to defend or lose.

Anil Thakur

foreign policy · conservative opinion

Anil Thakur writes a foreign-policy-heavy conservative column that frequently argues against the prevailing left-liberal consensus. His pieces are short, clear, and built to be argued back against.

Arjun Mukhopadhyay

opinion · political philosophy · bengal politics

Arjun Mukhopadhyay writes from Dhaka, where the view across both halves of Bengal sharpens every argument about the subcontinent's trajectory. A student of Thomas Paine's pamphleteering tradition and Vivekananda's civilisational confidence, he reads India's democratic renewals — and Bengal's in particular — through the long arc of history. His columns trace the line from the Pala Empire's universities to Plassey's betrayal to the ballot box's redemption, insisting always that a people who built Nalanda need no one's permission to rebuild their future.

Arvind Chandrashekhar

New Delhi

opinion · viksit bharat · indian statecraft

Arvind Chandrashekhar is the Opinion Editor of IndiaWorldEye. He writes The Viksit Bharat Briefing, the masthead's daily column on India's path to developed-nation status by 2047 — how policy choices, global partnerships, and institutional performance add up to the arc. His writing brings a statesman's frame to a daily reader: what is building Bharat, what is friction, and what the country should learn from the best global examples.

Bhaskar Das

politics · history · caste race

Bhaskar Das writes a column rooted in history. He treats the political present as the result of decisions made decades earlier, and is particularly interested in the long histories of caste, race, and exclusion.

Harish Ramanathan

social commentary · politics · culture

Harish Ramanathan writes social commentary that moves between political analysis, sociology, and moral philosophy. His essays take the long view on questions that daily journalism can only gesture at.

Jahan Khurshid

cultural commentary · politics · cricket

Jahan Khurshid writes essays that cross easily between politics, cricket, and cinema. The column argues that a country's cultural life is the first place its political pressures make themselves felt.

Kabir Saxena

politics · policy · institutions

Kabir Saxena writes long essays on politics, policy, and institutions, often shaped around a single question that gets turned over for several thousand words. His columns are built on interviews and structured argument rather than hot takes.

Mo Yanlin

south asia · india pakistan · civilisational history

Mo Yanlin is a Hong Kong-based essayist and geopolitical commentator specialising in South Asian affairs, civilisational history, and the strategic dynamics of the Indo-Pacific. His long-form analyses draw on decades of regional reporting across China, India, and Southeast Asia.

Nalini Iyer

New Delhi

statecraft philosophy · classical strategy · indian thought

Nalini Iyer writes opinion columns that keep returning to the classical Indian strategic canon — Arthashastra, Chanakya Neeti, the Nitisara — and asking what those texts still teach a rising India with real state capacity. Her work treats statecraft as a practice with a long Indian lineage, not a Western import.

Raghunath Iyengar

indian political economy · reform · philosophy

Raghunath Iyengar writes on the Indian political economy with the mind of a reformer and the voice of a moralist. His essays connect the country's economic choices to older questions about duty, virtue, and the good life.

Rajendra Kapoor

diplomacy · trade policy · government commentary

Rajendra Kapoor is a New Delhi-based senior policy analyst covering Indian government positions on trade, diplomacy, defence, and global governance. His commentary draws on extensive familiarity with official statements, diplomatic communiqués, and ministerial speeches, providing readers with analysis that reflects institutional thinking in South Block and North Block.

Shweta Bhalla

progressive opinion · gender · democracy

Shweta Bhalla writes a progressive column focused on politics, gender, and the tensions between liberal and illiberal currents inside democracies. Her writing is argumentative without shouting.

Simran Kaur

political column · satire · culture

Simran Kaur writes a political column with a satirical instinct and a flair for the set-piece scene. Her columns are read for their language as much as for their argument.

Suhas Patwardhan

history · democracy · essays

Suhas Patwardhan writes on Indian democracy from a historian's chair — with archives, with context, and with the insistence that public argument benefits from knowing what was said before. His essays move between the republic's founders and its present custodians.

Yuvan Subramanian

essays · religion · identity

Yuvan Subramanian writes essays on India, religion, and identity that resist both defensive nationalism and easy cosmopolitan dismissal. His work is read for the precision of its sentences and the seriousness of its argument.

Aarav Krishnamurthy

Pune

human progress · data analysis · sociology

Aarav Krishnamurthy is a Pune-based science and progress correspondent. His work uses data to interrogate conventional wisdom about violence, development, and the trajectory of human societies.

Amol Deshmukh

Pune

biodefense · pandemic preparedness · virology

Amol Deshmukh is a Pune-based science and environment correspondent covering biodefense, pandemic preparedness, and virology. His writing draws on the narrative urgency and scientific authority of Laurie Garrett.

Ananya Pillai

Chennai

epidemiology · pandemic preparedness · public health

Ananya Pillai covers pandemics, epidemiology, and the intersection of public health with political will. Her anchor is the deep history of contagion — how diseases reshape borders, economies, and institutions — and what that history tells India about its own disease-surveillance infrastructure and pandemic preparedness.

Anika Chatterjee

Kolkata

space exploration · hard science fiction · survival

Anika Chatterjee is a Kolkata-based science correspondent covering space exploration, orbital mechanics, and the engineering challenges of sustaining civilisation beyond Earth.

Anisha Rao

health · indian business · narrative

Anisha Rao writes long-form narrative journalism at the intersection of health, business, and Indian public life. Her essays trace individual stories to make larger arguments about how institutions deliver — or fail to.

Anusha Menon

Kozhikode

pandemic history · epidemiology · public health

Anusha Menon is a Kozhikode-based science and environment correspondent covering pandemic history, epidemiology, and public health. Her writing draws on the narrative sweep and scientific authority of John Barry.

Ayaan Malik

general science · research · ethics

Ayaan Malik is a science writer with a wide brief — medicine, climate, AI ethics, space. His writing is anchored in interviews with working researchers and an insistence on what the evidence does and does not support.

Harish Patel

Ahmedabad

neuroscience · sleep science · public health

Harish Patel is an Ahmedabad-based science and environment correspondent covering neuroscience, sleep science, and public health. His writing draws on the wonder-driven case-study approach and accessible rigour of Oliver Sacks.

Ishita Banerjee

physics · astronomy · cosmology

Ishita Banerjee writes about physics and astronomy for readers who want to understand, not just be told. Her writing treats cosmological questions as news, and her reporting is rooted in careful conversation with working scientists.

Jyoti Rawat

Dehradun

genetics · medical science · science narrative

Jyoti Rawat is a Dehradun-based science and environment correspondent covering genetics, medical science, and science narrative. Her writing draws on the clinical precision and moral seriousness of Atul Gawande.

Mala Venkat

biology · public health · infectious disease

Mala Venkat reports on biology and public health in long-form. Her COVID-era work set a standard for how to write about epidemic science for general readers; she continues to cover the biology that shapes everyday life.

Meenakshi Iyer

Kochi

genetics · biotechnology · science policy

Meenakshi Iyer is a Kochi-based science correspondent covering genetics, biotechnology, and the policy decisions that govern life sciences research. Her writing makes complex biology accessible without simplifying it.

Pallavi Menon

Kochi

archaeological discovery · tropical ecology · exploration

Pallavi Menon is a Kochi-based science correspondent covering ecological systems, archaeological discovery, and the expeditions that push the boundaries of what we know about the natural world.

Prashant Kale

biology · genetics · medicine

Prashant Kale writes on biology, genetics, and the science of life in motion. He argues that the public conversation on health and medicine benefits from readers who know how the underlying biology works.

Rajiv Iyer

Mumbai

environmental health · industrial pollution · investigative science

Rajiv Iyer is a Mumbai-based science and environment correspondent covering environmental health, industrial pollution, and investigative science. His writing draws on the on-the-ground investigative rigour and narrative depth of Elizabeth Kolbert.

Riya Srinivasan

public health · global health · epidemics

Riya Srinivasan reports on global public health — the epidemics, the vaccine programmes, the health systems that absorb the consequences of both. Her work spans India's own public-health apparatus and its partners across the global south.

Siddharth Bansal

Jaipur

molecular biology · origin of life · biochemistry

Siddharth Bansal is a Jaipur-based science writer covering the fundamental questions of biology — energy, evolution, and the chemistry that sustains life. His reporting bridges laboratory discovery and public understanding.

Sneha Nambiar

Kochi

blood science · global health · science journalism

Sneha Nambiar is a Kochi-based science and environment correspondent covering blood science, global health, and science journalism. Her writing draws on the irreverent curiosity and narrative warmth of Mary Roach.

Sujata Chatterjee

climate · biodiversity · environment

Sujata Chatterjee writes long-form reportage on climate, biodiversity, and the long emergency. Her essays take readers into the field — glaciers, coral reefs, farmland under stress — and return with arguments that will not be dismissed easily.

Vinod Murthy

Bengaluru

energy infrastructure · power grid · climate technology

Vinod Murthy is a Bengaluru-based science and environment correspondent covering energy infrastructure, power grid systems, and climate technology. His writing draws on the systems thinking and policy clarity of Michael Grunwald.

Aisha Patel

Ahmedabad

faith fiction · wedding narrative · inspirational fiction

Aisha Patel is an Ahmedabad-based culture and society correspondent covering faith fiction, wedding narratives, and inspirational fiction. Her writing draws on the tender emotional faith and romantic warmth of Nicholas Sparks.

Amit Bhatia

Nagpur

comedic crime · bounty hunter · jersey fiction

Amit Bhatia is a Nagpur-based culture and society correspondent covering comedic crime, bounty hunter fiction, and Jersey-inflected humor. His writing draws on the anarchic comic timing and outrageous set-pieces of Carl Hiaasen.

Anita Raghunath

Mysore

biography · disability · kennedy family

Anita Raghunath is a Mysore-based culture and society correspondent covering biography, disability, and the Kennedy family legacy. Her writing draws on the archival intimacy and empathetic narrative of Doris Kearns Goodwin.

Aparna Das

Kolkata

hollywood memoir · golden age cinema · personal essay

Aparna Das is a Kolkata-based culture and society correspondent covering Hollywood memoir, golden age cinema, and personal essay. Her writing draws on the candid intimacy and showbiz wit of Sheila Weller.

Ashwin Reddy

Hyderabad

cultural identity · memoir journalism · apartheid legacy

Ashwin Reddy is a Hyderabad-based culture correspondent covering identity, heritage, and the stories that communities tell about themselves. His writing balances personal narrative with structural analysis.

Deepa Sharma

Dharamsala

spirituality · interfaith dialogue · mindfulness

Deepa Sharma is a Dharamsala-based culture and society correspondent covering spirituality, interfaith dialogue, and the contemplative traditions that continue to shape Indian public life.

Farida Khan

Hyderabad

historical fiction · adoption · southern gothic

Farida Khan is a Hyderabad-based culture and society correspondent covering historical fiction, adoption narratives, and Southern gothic. Her writing draws on the warm storytelling and moral weight of Christina Baker Kline.

Geeta Sundaram

Coimbatore

domestic fiction · family saga · australian fiction

Geeta Sundaram is a Coimbatore-based culture and society correspondent covering domestic fiction, family saga, and Australian fiction. Her writing draws on the wry domestic comedy and ensemble character work of Sally Rooney.

Gopal Naidu

Visakhapatnam

frontier history · pioneer narrative · survival

Gopal Naidu is a Visakhapatnam-based culture and society correspondent covering frontier history, pioneer narratives, and survival. His writing draws on the immersive narrative non-fiction and archival depth of Erik Larson.

Harsh Trivedi

Ahmedabad

urban fantasy · mythology · genre fiction

Harsh Trivedi is an Ahmedabad-based culture and society correspondent covering urban fantasy, mythology, and genre fiction. His writing draws on the ironic mythological imagination and sharp wit of Neil Gaiman.

Indira Bhargava

Jaipur

memoir · education · survivalist family

Indira Bhargava is a Jaipur-based culture and society correspondent covering memoir, education, and survivalist family narratives. Her writing draws on the fierce self-reinvention and spare prose of Tara Westover.

Ira Sharma

cultural criticism · essays · internet culture

Ira Sharma writes cultural criticism — on internet life, on the texture of late consumer capitalism, on the quiet politics of taste. Her essays move between the scenes of everyday life and the arguments they reveal.

Jaya Krishnan

Thrissur

race relations · cultural criticism · social justice

Jaya Krishnan is a Thrissur-based culture and social affairs correspondent covering race, identity, and the cultural currents that shape political discourse.

Kriti Arora

Gurgaon

memoir · autobiography · gilded age

Kriti Arora is a Gurgaon-based culture and society correspondent covering memoir, autobiography, and Gilded Age society. Her writing draws on the fierce self-examination and narrative elegance of Cheryl Strayed.

Kumar Mohanty

Bhubaneswar

travel writing · british culture · comic essay

Kumar Mohanty is a Bhubaneswar-based culture and society correspondent covering travel writing, British culture, and comic essay. His writing draws on the grumpy affection and observational wit of Paul Theroux.

Lalita Rao

Bangalore

indian history · biography · heritage

Lalita Rao writes on India's cultural heritage and the biographies of the figures — kings, reformers, warriors, philosophers — who built the country as it is. Her work draws on archival research and oral history, and reads India as a civilisational story with particular people at every turn of it.

Madhavi Goswami

Bhubaneswar

romantic fiction · emotional drama · choices

Madhavi Goswami is a Bhubaneswar-based culture and society correspondent covering romantic fiction, emotional drama, and narratives of pivotal choices. Her writing draws on the wrenching emotional clarity and moral nuance of Jojo Moyes.

Meera Iyengar

Varanasi

classical thought · sanskrit · civilisational heritage

Meera Iyengar writes on the classical canon — the Gita, the Upanishads, the Dharmashastras — and what a living civilisational tradition still has to say about the choices modern India faces. Her beat is the long view: how ancient texts keep showing up inside contemporary policy debates once you know where to look.

Milan Pillai

long form · narrative · profiles

Milan Pillai writes long-form narrative nonfiction — profiles, reported essays, the occasional book-length project serialised across several pieces. His work follows individual lives to get at larger public questions.

Mira Reddy

Vizag

literary fiction · mother daughter · minimalist prose

Mira Reddy is a Vizag-based culture and society correspondent covering literary fiction, mother-daughter narratives, and minimalist prose. Her writing draws on the stripped emotional precision and quiet devastation of Ann Patchett.

Nalini Krishna

Bengaluru

literary fiction · suburban drama · race class

Nalini Krishna is a Bengaluru-based culture and society correspondent covering literary fiction, suburban drama, and the intersection of race and class. Her writing draws on the observational intimacy and structural elegance of Jhumpa Lahiri.

Neeraj Kumar

Patna

family memoir · lgbtq · celebrity narrative

Neeraj Kumar is a Patna-based culture and society correspondent covering family memoir, LGBTQ narratives, and celebrity storytelling. His writing draws on the empathetic clarity and familial warmth of Anderson Cooper.

Nikhil George

cultural criticism · cinema · television

Nikhil George is a cultural critic whose work ranges across cinema, television, music, and the essays that connect them. He treats popular culture as the ground on which larger political arguments are first fought out.

Om Patwardhan

urban · migration · cities

Om Patwardhan writes about Indian cities and the migration that feeds them — their economies, their chaos, and the lives that emerge in the space between. His writing has the density of long observation and an unusual patience for the ordinary.

Om Prakash Verma

Lucknow

white house memoir · presidential history · american politics

Om Prakash Verma is a Lucknow-based culture and society correspondent covering White House memoir, presidential history, and American politics. His writing draws on the insider access and narrative authority of Bob Woodward.

Pranav Hegde

Mangalore

historical fiction · medieval history · epic narrative

Pranav Hegde is a Mangalore-based culture and society correspondent covering historical fiction, medieval history, and epic narrative. His writing draws on the immersive period detail and psychological depth of Hilary Mantel.

Radha Venkat

Bengaluru

comedy memoir · feminism · satire

Radha Venkat is a Bengaluru-based culture and society correspondent covering comedy memoir, feminism, and satire. Her writing draws on the self-deprecating wit and industry insider sharpness of Mindy Kaling.

Rahul Narayan

Pune

epic fantasy · hard magic systems · worldbuilding

Rahul Narayan is a Pune-based culture and society correspondent covering epic fantasy, hard magic systems, and worldbuilding. His writing draws on the meticulous systemic imagination and narrative scope of Patrick Rothfuss.

Rashmi Patil

Nagpur

literary fiction · race · marriage and justice

Rashmi Patil is a Nagpur-based culture and society correspondent covering literary fiction, race, and the intersection of marriage and justice. Her writing draws on the political clarity and emotional generosity of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

Riya Choudhury

Siliguri

contemporary romance · office romance · romantic comedy

Riya Choudhury is a Siliguri-based culture and society correspondent covering contemporary romance, office romance, and romantic comedy. Her writing draws on the wit and emotional intelligence of Emily Henry.

Rohan Deshpande

Pune

solitude · environmentalism · human interest

Rohan Deshpande is a Pune-based culture and environment correspondent covering solitude, wilderness, and the stories of individuals who choose to live outside conventional society.

Rukmini Paul

theatre · cinema · cultural essays

Rukmini Paul writes about theatre, cinema, and the arts as acts of public meaning-making. Her essays treat performances as arguments, and the cultures that produce them as political.

Rupal Agarwal

Delhi

memoir · motherhood · school violence

Rupal Agarwal is a Delhi-based culture and society correspondent covering memoir, motherhood, and the aftermath of school violence. Her writing draws on the raw emotional accountability and narrative precision of Dave Cullen.

Sakshi Khurana

Delhi

memoir · wedding narrative · family history

Sakshi Khurana is a Delhi-based culture and society correspondent covering memoir, wedding narratives, and family history. Her writing draws on the personal reckoning and generational storytelling of Cheryl Strayed.

Sarojini Bisht

hindi culture · literature · society

Sarojini Bisht writes on Indian culture with a particular interest in how Hindi literary life has shaped the political imagination of the country. Her columns move between the Hindi belt and the metropolitan publics that rarely read it.

Seema Anand

diaspora · history · gender

Seema Anand writes on the Indian diaspora — not as a success story but as an archive of histories the metropole often forgets. Her essays use individual lives to open out the long structures of indenture, migration, and post-colonial citizenship.

Sharmila Rawat

gender · culture · society

Sharmila Rawat writes columns on gender, culture, and Indian public life — with a running attention to the places where progress is being quietly unwound. Her writing is direct without being polemical.

Shivani Tiwari

Indore

horror · psychological thriller · american gothic

Shivani Tiwari is an Indore-based culture and society correspondent covering horror, psychological thriller, and American gothic. Her writing draws on the dread-drenched atmospherics and childhood terror of Shirley Jackson.

Shobha Krishnan

Chennai

writing craft · creativity · fiction technique

Shobha Krishnan is a Chennai-based culture and society correspondent covering writing craft, creativity, and fiction technique. Her writing draws on the generous, permission-giving voice and practical wisdom of Anne Lamott.

Simran Gill

Ludhiana

sports romance · contemporary fiction · romantic comedy

Simran Gill is a Ludhiana-based culture and society correspondent covering sports romance, contemporary fiction, and romantic comedy. Her writing draws on the emotional directness and reader-first storytelling of Colleen Hoover.

Sonia Mathur

Amritsar

historical fiction · world war ii · resistance narrative

Sonia Mathur is an Amritsar-based culture and society correspondent covering historical fiction, World War II, and resistance narratives. Her writing draws on the structural complexity and emotional honesty of Kate Atkinson.

Suma Rao

Mangalore

comedy memoir · showbiz · golden age tv

Suma Rao is a Mangalore-based culture and society correspondent covering comedy memoir, showbiz, and golden age television. Her writing draws on the warmth, timing, and industry candour of Nora Ephron.

Sunaina Kapoor

Delhi

mental health · trauma · public health culture

Sunaina Kapoor writes on the inner landscape — how trauma, memory, and the body shape the way communities heal and fracture. Her beat is the culture of mental health in India: the stigma, the policy gaps, the generational silences that keep families from naming what happened to them. She draws on neuroscience and clinical research to ask why entire societies carry wounds they cannot articulate, and what it would take for India to build a public-health infrastructure that treats the mind with the same seriousness as the body.

Tanvi Kapoor

Jaipur

paranormal thriller · romantic suspense · genre fiction

Tanvi Kapoor is a Jaipur-based culture and society correspondent covering paranormal thriller, romantic suspense, and genre fiction. Her writing draws on the sensory world-building and fast-paced tension of Nalini Singh's paranormal romances.

Tara Bhardwaj

Dehradun

literary fiction · period drama · suspense

Tara Bhardwaj is a Dehradun-based culture and society correspondent covering literary fiction, period drama, and suspense. Her writing draws on the elegant plotting and civilised wit of Amor Towles.

Urvi Joshi

Pune

literary fiction · captivity narrative · child perspective

Urvi Joshi is a Pune-based culture and society correspondent covering literary fiction, captivity narratives, and child-perspective storytelling. Her writing draws on the confined-space intensity and voice-driven urgency of Emma Donoghue.

Varun Karthik

long form · features · general

Varun Karthik writes long reported features that resist a fixed beat — science, politics, cricket, crime. What holds the work together is a willingness to spend the time a story actually needs.

Veena Chandra

Lucknow

historical fiction · plantation narrative · slavery

Veena Chandra is a Lucknow-based culture and society correspondent covering historical fiction, plantation narratives, and the legacy of slavery. Her writing draws on the unflinching moral seriousness and historical depth of Colson Whitehead.

Vimal Pillai

Thiruvananthapuram

historical fiction · british saga · political dynasty

Vimal Pillai is a Thiruvananthapuram-based culture and society correspondent covering historical fiction, British saga, and political dynasty narratives. His writing draws on the plotting precision and institutional insider knowledge of Frederick Forsyth.

Vinay Dixit

Kanpur

dark romance · contemporary fiction · emotional suspense

Vinay Dixit is a Kanpur-based culture and society correspondent covering dark romance, contemporary fiction, and emotional suspense. His writing draws on the confined-space tension and slow-burn attraction of Penelope Ward.

Zainab Hussain

gender · islam · south asia society

Zainab Hussain writes on gender, faith, and the lives of South Asian women in the region and across the diaspora. Her essays combine reportage and memoir in pieces that rarely arrive at easy conclusions.

Deb Ray

sports business · ipl · cricket

Deb Ray writes on sport as a business — leagues, broadcasts, sponsorships, the IPL economy that now sits inside Indian public life. His columns translate the money side of sport for readers who love the game itself.

Deepak Menon

Chennai

cricket · test cricket · indian cricket

Deepak Menon writes cricket in the register of the player memoir — close to the moment, close to the crease, close to the decisions a batter or bowler makes between deliveries. His work reads the innings as a career turning point and the career as a series of innings.

Harish Nath

Hyderabad

cricket history · ranji cricket · mid century cricket

Harish Nath writes on cricket as a long history — the mid-century game, the domestic circuit, the figures who built the Indian cricketing idea before television. His beat is the archive: which matches actually mattered, which careers the record books underpraise.

Kavya Pillai

Chennai

football · tennis · sports governance

Kavya Pillai covers global football, tennis, and the governance bodies that decide where the money and the tournaments flow. Her reporting keeps one eye on Indian players trying to break out and another on the federations that can either open or close the door.

Naina Shetty

cricket · indian sport · sports business

Naina Shetty writes about cricket as a reporter and an essayist — the matches, the boards, the business that has grown up around them. Her long features on Indian sport treat it as a public institution worth scrutiny.

Neha Lingam

women in sport · olympic sport · sports policy

Neha Lingam writes on women in Indian sport — the training systems, the structural neglect, and the individual athletes who keep winning despite it. Her reporting is rooted in long conversations with competitors and coaches.

Nisha Bhardwaj

New Delhi

olympics · athletics · sports business

Nisha Bhardwaj covers the Olympics and the business of Indian athletics. Her beat is the long arc from junior national meets to the Games: the coaching, funding, federations, and sporting-goods economy that decides whether Indian medal counts ever catch up to India's population share.

Omkar Pillai

multi sport · features · olympics

Omkar Pillai writes long-form sports features across cricket, tennis, badminton, and the Olympic disciplines where Indian athletes quietly compete. His pieces are built on the athletes' own voices.

Priya Raghavan

Mumbai

cricket · ipl · sports analytics

Priya Raghavan covers cricket and the Indian Premier League from Mumbai. Her reporting runs on numbers as much as on lore: batting-average decay, spin-friendly venues, team payroll math, and the quiet decisions that decide a series before the toss.

Ramanujan Iyer

cricket · cricket history · essays

Ramanujan Iyer writes cricket essays with a historian's attention and a novelist's eye for moment. He can write about a single over for a thousand words and leave the reader wanting the next one.

Smriti Shah

Mumbai

cricket profile · ipl · indian cricket

Smriti Shah writes cricket at the character level — the captain in the huddle, the wicket-keeper's quiet authority, the choices a player makes that eventually add up to a record. Her beat is Indian cricket's personalities and the decisions behind the highlight reel.

Aarav Rao

investigations · power · accountability

Aarav Rao reports long, patient investigations into abuses of power — corporate, political, institutional. His work has been distinguished by persistence in the face of legal pressure from the subjects of reporting.

Aarti Saxena

Bhopal

psychological thriller · architecture · control

Aarti Saxena is a Bhopal-based investigative correspondent covering psychological complexity, architectural spaces, and the narrative structures that reveal hidden control in institutional settings.

Aditi Bhatt

Dehradun

psychological thriller · domestic noir · unreliable narrator

Aditi Bhatt is a Dehradun-based investigations correspondent covering psychological thriller, domestic noir, and unreliable narrator fiction. Her writing draws on the razor tension and dark domestic interiors of Gillian Flynn.

Bhavna Desai

Vadodara

domestic noir · journalist protagonist · missing persons

Bhavna Desai is a Vadodara-based investigations correspondent covering domestic noir, journalist protagonist narratives, and missing persons cases. Her writing draws on the observational perspective and suppressed grief of Paula Hawkins.

Divya Natarajan

Chennai

data journalism · statistical analysis · public policy

Divya Natarajan is a Chennai-based data journalist covering the intersection of statistics and public policy. Her work exposes how numbers are used — and misused — in governance and public discourse.

Gayatri Sharma

Jodhpur

pi mystery · female detective · california crime

Gayatri Sharma is a Jodhpur-based investigations correspondent covering PI mystery, female detective narratives, and California crime. Her writing draws on the feminist backbone and alphabetical methodology of Sara Paretsky.

Hina Rizvi

investigations · political violence · human rights

Hina Rizvi writes on political violence, insurgency, and the long shadows they cast across Indian institutions — the official records, the silences, and the voices that ordinarily go unheard. Her reporting is rooted in primary-source material, not secondary commentary.

Kavya Srinivasan

Chennai

behavioural economics · cognitive bias · narrative nonfiction

Kavya Srinivasan is a Chennai-based investigative correspondent covering decision-making, cognitive bias, and the hidden mechanisms that shape outcomes in business and government.

Komal Rajput

Jaipur

psychological thriller · domestic suspense · unreliable narrator

Komal Rajput is a Jaipur-based investigations correspondent covering psychological thriller, domestic suspense, and unreliable narrator fiction. Her writing draws on the slow-burn dread and fractured trust of B.A. Paris.

Manoj Shukla

Varanasi

crime fiction · criminal justice · procedural thriller

Manoj Shukla is a Varanasi-based investigations correspondent covering crime fiction, criminal justice, and procedural thriller. His writing draws on the methodical detective work and moral ambiguity of Michael Connelly.

Meenakshi Shanker

institutions · workplace · investigations

Meenakshi Shanker reports on how institutions handle — or fail to handle — allegations of abuse, discrimination, and rule-breaking. Her investigations draw on documents as much as on sources.

Megha Saxena

Bhopal

futuristic crime · police procedural · romantic suspense

Megha Saxena is a Bhopal-based investigations correspondent covering futuristic crime, police procedural, and romantic suspense. Her writing draws on the forensic authenticity and near-future texture of Patricia Cornwell.

Nirmal Menon

Kozhikode

pi mystery · crime fiction · boston noir

Nirmal Menon is a Kozhikode-based investigations correspondent covering PI mystery, crime fiction, and Boston noir. His writing draws on the stripped-down hardboiled economy of Lawrence Block.

Nisha Iyer

Mysore

espionage · cold war · intelligence fiction

Nisha Iyer is a Mysore-based investigations correspondent covering espionage, cold war history, and intelligence fiction. Her writing draws on the moral ambiguity and institutional loyalty of Ben Macintyre's spy chronicles.

Parul Mehta

Surat

domestic thriller · suburban crime · family secrets

Parul Mehta is a Surat-based investigations correspondent covering domestic thriller, suburban crime, and family secrets. Her writing draws on the suburban dread and propulsive reveals of Harlan Coben.

Pooja Singh

Delhi

urban crime · police procedure · detective fiction

Pooja Singh is a Delhi-based investigations correspondent covering urban crime, police procedure, and detective fiction. Her writing draws on the propulsive procedural style of Don Winslow's crime narratives.

Prithviraj Sinha

investigations · long form · profiles

Prithviraj Sinha edits and writes long-form investigations into Indian power — the corporate houses, the political families, the institutions where decisions get made outside the glare of daily reporting. His writing tends toward the careful, evidence-heavy profile.

Ramesh Yadav

Patna

nordic noir · cybercrime · investigative journalism

Ramesh Yadav is a Patna-based investigations correspondent covering nordic noir, cybercrime, and investigative journalism. His writing draws on the social-critique embedded in the procedural precision of Henning Mankell.

Ritika Das

Guwahati

crime thriller · missing persons · forensic psychology

Ritika Das is a Guwahati-based investigations correspondent covering crime thriller, missing persons, and forensic psychology. Her writing draws on the clinical suspense and victim-centred empathy of Tess Gerritsen.

Shailesh Pillai

influence · government · records

Shailesh Pillai reports on the plumbing of influence — how corporations, lobbies, and well-placed individuals bend government decisions in their favour. He works from filings, contracts, and the slow unglamorous reading of public records.

Shalini Pillai

Kochi

romantic suspense · crime thriller · forensics

Shalini Pillai is a Kochi-based investigations correspondent covering romantic suspense, crime thriller, and forensics. Her writing draws on the unflinching forensic detail and character depth of Karin Slaughter.

Sunita Nair

Trivandrum

fbi thriller · counter intelligence · forensic science

Sunita Nair is a Trivandrum-based investigations correspondent covering FBI thriller, counter-intelligence, and forensic science. Her writing draws on the intelligence tradecraft and institutional intrigue of Daniel Silva.

Tara Kulhari

labor · migration · informal economy

Tara Kulhari reports on labour, migration, and the systems that determine how people live and work at the edges of the formal economy. Her investigations have forced policy changes in multiple jurisdictions.

Varsha Patil

Pune

crime fiction · criminal psychology · suspense

Varsha Patil is a Pune-based investigative correspondent covering criminal psychology, forensic analysis, and the narrative techniques that illuminate how crime intersects with social structures.

Vikrant Deshmukh

corruption · institutions · defence procurement

Vikrant Deshmukh reports on corruption, state capture, and the quieter failures of public institutions. His investigations have moved the needle on defence procurement, corporate power, and political financing.

Harinder Walia

pakistan · sri lanka · regional diplomacy

Harinder Walia covers Pakistan and Sri Lanka with the patience of a correspondent who has spent years inside both. His reporting is attentive to the internal politics of neighbours that Indian coverage too often treats as single-issue stories.

Pawan Thapa

nepal · himalayas · small states

Pawan Thapa covers Nepal and the wider Himalayan belt — politics, environment, and the pressures that come from sharing long borders with two giants. His column argues that small countries deserve serious coverage, not walk-on parts.

Radhika Menon

south asia · conflict · field reporting

Radhika Menon has reported from across South Asia for two decades — elections, conflict zones, displacement. Her column draws on the field work to make arguments about the region that cannot be made from a desk.

Reva Joshi

New Delhi

pakistan · bangladesh · sri lanka

Reva Joshi covers South Asia — Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and the Maldives — from the vantage of India's immediate neighbourhood. Her beat is the diplomacy of the region: trade corridors, election cycles, and the water, power, and visa politics that shape every bilateral.

Saira Qureshi

pakistan · south asia · politics

Saira Qureshi writes on Pakistan — its civilian politics, its military establishment, its economy, and the knotted relationship with India that frames all three. Her essays resist the caricatures that dominate the discourse on both sides.

Tanya Raj

south asia · neighbourhood · diplomacy

Tanya Raj covers India's immediate neighbourhood — the governments, the back-channels, the moments when small-country politics become Indian problems. Her reporting is rooted in long diplomatic sourcing.

Aseem Banerji

china · communist party · chinese politics

Aseem Banerji writes on Chinese political life — the Party's apparatus, the inner circles, the ideological turns that eventually become foreign policy. His work is read closely by anyone trying to forecast where Beijing is going next.

Biren Kashyap

china · india china · lac

Biren Kashyap covers China for an Indian audience — the Communist Party's internal politics, the Indian border questions, the diplomatic and economic engagement that will not simply go away. His reporting is unusual for its access to Chinese-language sources.

Jai Subramanian

china india · comparative development · institutions

Jai Subramanian writes comparative analysis of Chinese and Indian development — the institutions, the demography, the policy choices that made the two economies what they are. His essays argue for taking the comparison seriously rather than treating it as metaphor.

Keshav Menon

china · propaganda · party signals

Keshav Menon runs a standing column tracking Chinese politics, propaganda, and policy as close to daily as a writer can manage. Readers use it as an instrument to navigate the Party's signals.

Leela Krishnan

china · taiwan · semiconductors

Leela Krishnan writes on China, Taiwan, and the technology supply chains that run through both. Her reporting is built on first-hand observation — semiconductor fabs, party schools, and the everyday economy of a country still hard to report on.

Shalini Rao

New Delhi

china policy · india china · negotiation

Shalini Rao covers China — not as an abstract adversary but as a specific diplomatic and negotiating counterparty. Her beat is the India-China interface: how Beijing frames bilateral problems, how Delhi has learned to read those framings, and what the record of negotiations actually shows.

Tapti Bose

chinese economy · state capitalism

Tapti Bose writes on the Chinese economy — the policy documents, the state-owned enterprises, the way Party priorities reshape markets. Her reporting keeps Chinese economic decisions inside the frame of Indian commercial and strategic interests.

Kavita Subramaniam

latin america · commodities · migration

Kavita Subramaniam covers Latin America, with a running interest in how the region's commodity cycles, migration politics, and ideological turns are read in Delhi. Her reporting fills a gap in Indian coverage of a continent that matters more than most realize.

Kunal Sharma

Washington DC

white house · us politics · presidential

Kunal Sharma is our Washington DC correspondent, covering the White House, the cabinet, and the machinery of presidential politics as it shapes decisions that travel to Delhi. He reports from DC with a reader-at-home in mind.

Nandita Raghuram

us politics · campaigns · parties

Nandita Raghuram reports on US political campaigns and the parties that run them. Her sourcing is built on years of phone calls with operatives, volunteers, and the people who do the unglamorous work of American electoral politics.

Nitin Kulkarni

Nashik

rural decline · class politics · social commentary

Nitin Kulkarni is a Nashik-based social affairs correspondent covering rural economies, class structures, and the politics of communities left behind by globalisation.

Rishi Bhargava

us politics · political analysis

Rishi Bhargava writes American political analysis with a reporter's instinct and a polemicist's sharpness. His column takes positions, defends them, and updates them in public when the evidence moves.

Rohit Varma

New Delhi

american history · political biography · founding era

Rohit Varma is a New Delhi-based US affairs correspondent covering American political history and the institutional dynamics that shape the India-US relationship across administrations.

Sameer Anand

us politics · long form · profiles

Sameer Anand writes long-form pieces on American politics — individual profiles, campaign narratives, the culture of power. His work belongs to readers who want the ten-thousand-word version rather than the tweet.

Sameer Joshi

Nagpur

presidential history · cold war · executive power

Sameer Joshi is a Nagpur-based US affairs correspondent covering presidential power, cold-war history, and the decision-making architecture of the American executive branch.

Serena Bhagat

us politics · narrative · campaigns

Serena Bhagat reports US political stories with a narrative sense — the set-piece scenes, the quiet decisions, the moments that turn campaigns. Her work is built on long reporting trips across the country.

Vikram Narayan

Washington DC

us billionaires · innovators · biography

Vikram Narayan covers the builders and disruptors who reshape industries — the billionaires, the founders, the engineers who bet everything on an idea and sometimes win. His beat is the biography behind the balance sheet: how the person explains the company, how childhood explains the risk appetite, how the arc of a life predicts the arc of a market. He writes from Washington DC with a particular interest in how American innovation intersects with Indian ambition.

Ananya Sen

Kolkata

democratic institutions · authoritarian politics · european history

Ananya Sen is a Kolkata-based Europe correspondent covering democratic institutions, authoritarian tendencies, and the lessons European political history holds for emerging democracies.

Avinash Iyer

post imperial · india uk · diaspora

Avinash Iyer writes essays on the residues of empire — in the UK's political culture, in the diaspora's civic life, in the long argument about what India inherited and what it refused. His columns move between Delhi and London without losing footing in either.

Kishore Verma

Lucknow

literary fiction · community · ageing

Kishore Verma is a Lucknow-based Europe correspondent covering Nordic societies, community structures, and the social contracts that underpin Scandinavian politics.

Neha Kapoor

New Delhi

world war two · resistance narratives · historical nonfiction

Neha Kapoor is a New Delhi-based Europe correspondent covering war memory, resistance narratives, and the historical events that continue to shape European politics and identity.

Shanaya Kapadia

european union · brussels · eu policy

Shanaya Kapadia writes on the European Union — its policymaking, its member-state politics, its long-running questions about enlargement and integration. Her work brings the Brussels corridors into focus for Indian readers who need to understand them.

Arnav Mukherjee

israel · middle east · india israel

Arnav Mukherjee writes on Israel and the Middle East for readers who want the politics explained from the inside. His column keeps the India–Israel relationship in view without ever letting it flatten the wider regional picture.

Yasmin Ali

middle east · gulf · migration

Yasmin Ali writes from the Middle East with a correspondent's patience and a columnist's angle. Her reporting spans the Gulf states, the Levant, and the migration corridors that tie them to Indian labour markets.

Zainab Qureshi

Hyderabad

civilisation history · islamic world · political philosophy

Zainab Qureshi is a Hyderabad-based analyst covering the Islamic world and the intellectual history of political order. Her writing bridges classical political philosophy with contemporary geopolitics.

Karthik Sundaram

Madurai

agriculture science · environmental systems · food security

Karthik Sundaram is a Madurai-based environment and agriculture correspondent covering the science of food production, soil systems, and the resource constraints that shape rural India.

Kishore Tandon

indian environment · climate negotiations · forest policy

Kishore Tandon reports on Indian environmental policy — the forest clearances, the air-quality monitoring, the climate negotiations where India's negotiating positions are set. His investigations have reshaped national debates.

Lakshmi Subramanian

Coimbatore

energy systems · industrial development · materials

Lakshmi Subramanian is a Coimbatore-based energy and industry correspondent covering the material foundations of modern economies. Her analysis traces how energy, materials, and manufacturing shape development trajectories.

Nandini Iyer

climate equity · global south · displacement

Nandini Iyer writes on climate as a question of equity and justice — the unequal exposure to heat, water stress, and displacement that the global south already carries. Her reporting places India inside a wider conversation about who owes what.

Tushar Bansal

clean energy · decarbonisation · climate tech

Tushar Bansal covers decarbonisation — the technologies, the capital, the policies — and is particularly attentive to India's place in the global clean-energy build-out. His work is aimed at readers who want to understand the economics of the transition.

Urmila Sawant

climate policy · carbon · energy transition

Urmila Sawant writes on climate science and the policies responding to it — carbon budgets, energy transitions, the question of who pays. Her work treats climate as an engineering and political problem at the same time.

Ameya Deshpande

New Delhi

supreme court · legislation · international law

Ameya Deshpande covers legal affairs and policy — the Supreme Court, major legislation, tribunals, and international-law questions that reach Indian jurisdiction. She writes with the assumption that readers deserve to know not just the ruling but the reasoning.

Aparna Balakrishnan

supreme court · constitutional law · judiciary

Aparna Balakrishnan covers the Supreme Court of India — the judgments, the hearings, and the institutional pressures that shape the court's decisions. Her reporting keeps the bench intelligible to readers who are not lawyers.

Rekha Mohan

New Delhi

criminal justice · mass incarceration · civil rights

Rekha Mohan is a New Delhi-based legal and policy analyst covering systemic inequality, incarceration, and the structural mechanisms that perpetuate injustice across legal systems.

Tanzil Ahmed

constitutional law · fundamental rights · jurisprudence

Tanzil Ahmed writes on Indian constitutional law with a particular interest in how fundamental rights doctrine has evolved, narrowed, and expanded over the last seven decades. His columns are pitched at general readers but carry specialist weight.

Vikram Nair

Kochi

racial justice · historical crime · investigative history

Vikram Nair is a Kochi-based legal affairs and history correspondent covering historical injustice, accountability, and the intersection of law and moral reckoning.

Viren Karnik

constitutional law · civil liberties · judiciary

Viren Karnik writes about Indian constitutional law — what the court has said, what it has avoided, and how doctrine shifts over time. His columns are used as references by lawyers and civil-society groups.

Vivek Iyengar

us supreme court · comparative law · constitutional law

Vivek Iyengar covers the U.S. Supreme Court and the comparative conversation between constitutional systems. His column makes the court's jurisprudence available to readers in Delhi who need to understand its global influence.

Vivek Mahajan

Chandigarh

criminal justice · policing · institutional reform

Vivek Mahajan is a Chandigarh-based legal affairs correspondent covering criminal justice, policing reform, and the tension between state power and individual rights across democracies.

Ambika Rao

media criticism · press freedom · ethics

Ambika Rao writes media criticism — the editorial choices, the press freedoms being squeezed, the ethics of reporting in an attention economy. Her column takes the press seriously enough to criticise it plainly.

Jitin Kumar

misinformation · fact checking · digital media

Jitin Kumar reports on misinformation — its tactics, its economics, its political sponsors. His column walks readers through the forensics of viral claims and argues for the institutional investments required to respond.

Paulomi Das

news industry · media economics · press

Paulomi Das writes about the news business — the economics, the technology, the quiet collapse of the model that funded reporting in the late twentieth century. Her column is followed by editors more than readers.

Priti Deshmukh

Mumbai

media industry · journalism practice · press freedom

Priti Deshmukh covers the media industry itself — how newsrooms work, how reporting is taught, how the craft adapts to digital disruption. Her beat is the institutional machinery of journalism: editorial process, source management, the economics of a free press, and what India's expanding media landscape can learn from American newsroom practice.

Richa Dube

creator economy · platform culture · online media

Richa Dube reports on creator economies and platform culture — the people who have made the internet their workplace and the systems that set the terms they work on. Her work is built on talking to creators rather than about them.

Tanya Bhatia

Mumbai

media industry · personal essay · addiction recovery

Tanya Bhatia is a Mumbai-based media and information correspondent covering the news industry, digital platforms, and the personal cost of media careers.

Tara Banerjee

Mumbai

press freedom · digital media · misinformation

Tara Banerjee covers the media and information beat — press freedom, the digital platforms, and the information ecosystem that now decides what most Indians see and believe. Her work reads the news business from inside, without either celebration or despair.

Yogi Arya

astrology · vastu · spirituality

Yogi Arya is IndiaWorldEye's Vedic astrology and Vastu columnist. Trained in the classical Parashari and Jaimini systems, his daily Rashifal column blends ancient Jyotish principles with modern life guidance, using the sidereal zodiac and Moon-sign priority that distinguish authentic Vedic astrology from its Western counterpart. He also writes weekly Vastu tips rooted in Vishwakarma Prakash and Manasara traditions. As Sage Parasara taught, the stars illuminate the path — but it is always the individual who walks it.

Priya Malhotra

Mumbai

bollywood · celebrity · film industry

Priya Malhotra is IndiaWorldEye's Bollywood correspondent, covering the A-list — the Khans, the Kapoors, the new-money producers, and every scandal between them. She reports from Mumbai with sources in every vanity van and production house that matters.

Zara Hussain

Mumbai

bollywood new gen · ott · streaming

Zara Hussain covers Bollywood's new generation and India's booming OTT scene — the actors who skipped the star-kid queue, the web series reshaping what Indian audiences watch, and the streaming wars between Netflix, Prime, and Hotstar.

Tara Menon

Los Angeles

hollywood · oscars · franchise films

Tara Menon covers Hollywood from Los Angeles — the studios, the stars, the franchise wars, and the awards circus. She writes for Indian readers who want the inside track on global entertainment without the American-centric assumptions.

Kavya Nair

Bangalore

influencers · social media · creator economy

Kavya Nair covers India's influencer economy — the creators, the brand deals, the drama, and the surprisingly serious business underneath the dance reels. She writes from Bangalore, where half of India's top tech-influencers record their content.

Rohit Kapoor

Mumbai

cricket lifestyle · ipl off field · player lifestyle

Rohit Kapoor covers the lifestyle side of Indian cricket — the WAGs, the IPL parties, the endorsement empires, and everything that happens when the stumps are pulled. He writes cricket's Page 3 from Mumbai.

Aditya Singhania

Delhi

business dynasties · billionaire families · corporate power

Aditya Singhania covers India's business dynasties — the Ambanis, the Adanis, the Tatas, and every billionaire family whose boardroom decisions shape the country's economy. He writes power profiles from Delhi with a Vanity Fair sensibility.

Meera Iyer

Mumbai

fashion · beauty · celebrity style

Meera Iyer covers Indian fashion and beauty — the designers, the red carpets, the celebrity style moments, and the beauty industry's billion-dollar boom. She writes from Mumbai with an eye trained on both the ramp and the street.

Arjun Reddy

Hyderabad

viral · memes · internet culture

Arjun Reddy covers India's viral internet — the memes, the Twitter storms, the Reddit threads, and every chaotic moment when the subcontinent breaks the internet. He writes from Hyderabad with the energy of someone who has never closed a browser tab.

Diya Sharma

Delhi

music · concerts · bollywood music

Diya Sharma covers Indian music — from Arijit Singh's concert empire to AP Dhillon's crossover moment, from indie bands in Delhi basements to the business of Bollywood playback. She writes about sound with a critic's ear and a fan's heart.

Vikram Thakur

Mumbai

scandals · celebrity controversies · court cases

Vikram Thakur covers celebrity scandals — the lawsuits, the leaked messages, the industry exposés that nobody wants published but everybody reads. He writes from Mumbai with investigative instincts and tabloid energy.

Ishani Pillai

Chennai

weddings · relationships · celebrity couples

Ishani Pillai covers celebrity weddings, relationships, and the grand Indian tradition of turning a shaadi into a national event. She writes from Chennai with the warmth of a wedding guest and the sharp eye of a relationship columnist.

Siddharth Rao

San Francisco

tech moguls · silicon valley · billionaire tech

Siddharth Rao covers the lifestyle, drama, and power plays of the world's tech moguls — Musk's Twitter circus, Pichai's quiet empire, Nadella's reinvention of Microsoft. He writes from San Francisco where the tech elite eat, tweet, and occasionally self-destruct.

Neha Chaturvedi

Delhi

political families · political dynasties · political gossip

Neha Chaturvedi covers India's political families — the dynasties, the heirs, the marriages that merge constituencies, and the private dramas that shape public policy. She writes political gossip from Delhi with a columnist's wit and a reporter's sourcing.

Maya Krishnamurthy

New York

diaspora stars · indian origin global · crossover entertainment

Maya Krishnamurthy covers Indian-origin stars making it abroad — the actors, the writers, the chefs, the athletes, and everyone who carries India's name on a global stage. She writes from New York with one eye on Hollywood, one on Bollywood, and both on the diaspora.

Riya Sen

Kolkata

k drama · anime · k pop

Riya Sen covers K-Drama, anime, and Asian pop culture for India's massive and growing fanbase. She writes from Kolkata where the manga shelves are always sold out and the K-drama watch parties last until dawn.

Tanvi Deshmukh

Mumbai

reality tv · bigg boss · talent shows

Tanvi Deshmukh covers Indian reality TV — Bigg Boss eliminations, Khatron Ke Khiladi stunts, talent show auditions, and every dramatic eviction that becomes the next morning's watercooler conversation. She writes from Mumbai with an opinion on every contestant.

Raghav Mehta

Pune

nostalgia · retro bollywood · cultural memory

Raghav Mehta writes about India's cultural past — the Bollywood of the '90s, the TV shows that raised a generation, the songs that still play at every wedding, and every 'remember when' moment that hits harder than any new release.

Amara Okafor

Delhi

sports drama · olympics · badminton

Amara Okafor covers the drama, lifestyle, and human stories of sports beyond cricket — Olympic athletes, badminton stars, football rivalries, and every underdog story that deserves more attention than it gets. She writes from Delhi with a lens trained on the athletes the mainstream ignores.

Farah Khan

Mumbai

red carpet · fashion police · memes

Farah Khan (no, not that one) is IndiaWorldEye's red carpet and meme correspondent — equal parts fashion police and meme queen. She covers award shows, film festivals, and premieres with devastating style commentary, then turns the best moments into the internet's favourite meme formats.

Dinesh Kapur

Delhi

indian foreign policy · strategic affairs · india diplomacy

Dinesh Kapur is a Delhi-based geopolitics correspondent covering Indian foreign policy, strategic affairs, and Indian diplomacy. His writing draws on the strategic depth and civilisational framing of C. Raja Mohan.

Prerna Mishra

Delhi

middle east · conflict journalism · foreign correspondence

Prerna Mishra is a Delhi-based geopolitics correspondent covering the Middle East, conflict journalism, and foreign correspondence. Her writing draws on the uncompromising on-the-ground reporting and regional expertise of Robert Fisk.