About the Author

I have more than 30 years' experience in journalism, teaching and communications. I've worked for leading Indian publications including the Times of India, Outlook and Financial Express, and in Muscat for The Times of Oman and The Oman Daily Observer out of Delhi. I was among the founding team of Outlook. I have also been editor of niche publications on infrastructure and defence. I was on the faculty of the Times of India School of Journalism.

I have now set up my own editorial practice. Among my clients are multilateral agencies, NGOs, eLearning companies, publishing houses and literary agencies.

I have a sound track record as a journalist with wide national and international exposure as well as strong leadership skills. Among my special abilities is rewriting, which I can do with speed and expertise. In my various jobs in mainline and niche publications, I have excelled as an editor, writer and re-write person. In the course of my journalistic career, I have handheld and trained many journalists on the job.

My non-journalistic jobs were with Genesis PR as consulting associate, with an IT company Multiple Zones India Pvt Ltd, where I was group vice president (communications) and as secretary-general of the now CII-affiliated Call Centre Association of India. I also ran my own technology-specific image-building consultancy, Infomark India, from 1998 to 2002.

My debut novel, The Newsroom Mafia, was published by Grey Oak Westland on 8 December 2011. It was among the top new releases nationwide and sold more than 5000 copies within the first two months of its publication. It continues to do well. The novel describes the unholy alliance between the media, the mafia and the government.

My new novel, Revenge of the Naked Princess, published in December 2012 by Jufic Books, an imprint of Leadstart Publishing, is a dramatic, dark tale on forced religious conversions in India in the sixteenth century. It’s the first Indian novel of its kind.