Patna-based Assistant Editor with The Indian Express since June 2008, covers entire Bihar Some important news breaks and investigative stories: Nal Jal scam, Covid data fudge, Prohibition and arrests of the sub-altern, Muzaffarpur shelter home truth, Srijan scam series, AES deaths and ground reports, Caste barracks of Bihar Police, Mahadalit land scam and Rice milling…

“Sandeep is a passionate educator. He is one of those individuals who have dedicated his life to making the greatest impact on the greatest number of people.” William Nanda Bissell, Chairman of the Board, Fabindia. Sandeep focuses on school transformation with an emphasis on culture as a service. With over 30 years of experience has empowered…

Yatindra Mishra is an Indian poet, editor and music and cinema scholar. Mishra has published four collections of Hindi poetry: Yada-Kada (1997), Ayodhya Tatha Anya Kavitayen (1999) and Dyorhi Par Aalaap (2005). He has also written Devpriya (2007) and Sur Ki Baradari (2009) about the life and work of thumri singer Girija Devi, dancer Sonal…

Dr Tarana Husain Khan is a writer and food historian based in Rampur and articles on Rampur cuisine, culture and oral history have appeared in Scroll, The Wire and DailyO and she also wrote a monthly column on Rampur cuisine, ‘Food Fables’ in DailyO. She hosts a website on Rampur’s cultural and culinary history (taranakhanauthor.com)…

Shirish Khare is an active journalist for the last two decades and has been writing in favour of underprivileged and oppressed communities. About a thousand of his reports have been published while doing mainstream institutions like ‘Rajasthan Patrika’ and ‘Tehelka’ and independent journalism. Shirish was honoured with seven national level awards including ‘Ladli Media Award’…

Shekhar Pathak is an Indian historian, writer and academician from Uttarakhand. He is the founder of People’s Association for Himalaya Area Research (PAHAR), established in 1983, former professor of History at Kumaun University, Nainital and a Nehru Fellow at the Centre for Contemporary Studies at Teen Murti in New Delhi. He was awarded the Padma…

Shafey Kidwai is an Indian academic, communication scientist, translator, columnist, and author. He is a bilingual critic and communication expert and his fortnightly column on literature, Culture and media Going Native appears in the Friday Review, The Hindu, the chief editor of Aligarh Journal of Communication and he is on the editorial board of several…

Satish Padmanabhan is Managing Editor, Outlook Magazine. He has over 25 years of work in various media like newspapers, magazine, TV and digital. He started with Sunday and BusinessWorld, then moving to TV with TV-18 and CNBC, and later as News Editor at NDTV. He has also taught journalism at the Times School of Journalism…

Sandeep Bamzai is a news junkie, having worked across all major news platforms in positions of eminence for the last 40 years. He began his career as a cricket writer with The Statesman in Kolkata. He has worked in Kolkata, Mumbai and New Delhi with the biggest media houses. The last two decades have seen him on the…