You’re a super-smart, curious person and love being well-informed. Your phone is buzzing with a stream of app notifications, Whatsapp forwards and tweets. It’s just relentless: the sheer volume of news. It’s incredibly loud… and, dear god, there is so much of it! Why does it have to be noisy and exhausting? It's time to KonMari your news... declutter and spark a bit of joy!
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I founded Broadsheet Daily and earlier co-founded Firstpost.com. My past work life includes working and
writing for lots of places, including Wired, the Nation, Vogue, Columbia Journalism Review etc.
As for the rest, I live with a badly behaved menagerie that includes one child, two dogs and a
boyfriend—who test my superhuman patience every day. They are all alive and accounted for…as of now.
I graduated from Vassar College with a degree in Psychology and Political Science, ready to change the world one opinion at a time.
My most treasured accomplishment is my undergraduate thesis, which is a
critical study of politics, feminism and dharma through the eyes of Draupadi!
The past year has been wild on the roller coaster ride that is the startup life. And it has been worth every
minute...with the help of many cups of chai.
I graduated from St. Xavier’s College, Mumbai in 2020 all set to join the big bad world of news. But then Covid happened
and time stood still, until I landed this wonderful opportunity at splainer.
If I'm not at work chances are I’m either baking for family or endlessly scrolling through social media. My most
ridiculous pandemic feat: moving across the country twice!
I was an editor at Penguin Random House India for over five years, and am now a freelance editor. I studied
international relations and security, and consequently spend a lot of time reading about and researching real-life
espionage tales. I love murder mysteries, a well-delivered joke, and all things Russia.
I’ve been spending the past year quizzing and studying beekeeping, and hope to continue both these pursuits
indefinitely. If things went my way, I’d play a lot more tennis and sing aloud more often.
I studied History and Politics at the University of Warwick and graduated in July 2020. Graduating during a pandemic meant I was entering a world where everyone was as clueless as an undergrad student. This is when I came across Splainer, and when they had an opening 4 months later, I had to apply.
The best part about having a job that requires you to read the news is that I don’t have to do the same off-duty and I can spend my time watching Bollywood movies.
I am currently pursuing a degree in economics from Madras Christian College. I'm as disillusioned with academia as I'm passionate about it. I find respite in my bookshelf, a hot plate of biriyani and Tamil film music from a bygone era.
I am a lawyer having done some strictly legal work before this — litigation, legal policy, corporate law, you name it. Previously worked at the Supreme Court, Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy and P&A Law Offices.
As an independent researcher drawn to journalism, I’m at splainer to preserve our collective sanity. When not working, I am learning the piano very slowly, worshipping Olivia Laing or dabbling in some other form of art.
