ABOUT ME

I head the Press Institute of India in Chennai and am the editor of its journals Vidura, Grassroots and RIND Survey. 

I have had stints as senior editor with The Economic Times, The Times of India and The Hindu Business Line. I was consulting editor, WAN-IFRA (World Association of Newspapers & News Publishers). I was a columnist for The New Indian Express and for many years wrote on heritage, sports and civic issues for Madras Musings and The Hindu. 

I have contributed to books on the history of Madras (Madras Rediscovered, At Home in Madras - A Handbook for Chennai, and to Madras-Chennai - A 400-year Record of the First City of Modern India) and some of its prominent citizens (The Unfinished Journey - The Story of M. Ct. M. Chidambaram Chettyar, T.T. Vasu - The Man Who Could Never Say No), and also to the corporate biography of L&T-ECC, 60 Landmark Years.

I began my career as a direct recruit officer with United India Insurance Company, a subsidiary of the General Insurance Corporation of India. After eight years, I moved to the TTK Group where I had a decade-long stint as head of Public Relations and Corporate Communications. 

I was born and brought up in Calcutta. I studied at Don Bosco Scool, Park Circus, and graduated in Commerce from St Xavier's College. Later in Chennai, I studied Journalism at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Chennai. I was a topper all through school and college, and bagged the gold medal and the best student award in Journalism at Bhavan's.