About
For 30 years have been chronicling, for television, the great transformation that is India. Documenting society through politics, economy, technology, militancy, films, media, sport, personalities and unknown, unseen individuals. Conceived & piloted hundreds of hours of prime content. Standalone and mini-series worth, of long format and in-depth news documentaries. Mentored teams winning countless journalism & TV awards including multiple Ramanath Goenka Awards, Red Ink Journalism Awards and Laadli Awards. I try and constantly innovate with form, as I direct, write, edit, voice and present content in the audio visual medium.
* Designed & launched NEWSPOINT for IANS, India's first original news content on an OTT platform.
* Designed formats/concepts for India Today's foray into 'Unscripted' for OTT platforms.
* Core member in planning & launch of Headlines Today, India's first private English TV channel
* Planned & led special coverage of successive General & Assembly Elections for India Today TV.
* For 2 decades led and mentored the Programming Team at India Today TV.
Selected Documentary Highlights
* Wrote & Directed The Last Push, a documentary on the 1946 Royal Indian Navy mutiny against British imperialism.
* Directed, researched and scripted “WORLD OF FARUQI” a long format feature populated by the characters of author Shamshur Rahman Faruqi’s novels.
* Directed, researched and scripted “GUNS & GLORY“ a 9 part series that told stories of wars that India had waged.
* Directed, scripted, edited and anchored “AN INDIAN IN GOA“ a half-hour News feature on Headlines Today - on Goa completing 50 years as a part of India.
* Directed, scripted and anchored “ IDEALIST AGAINST IDEALISM“ a 30 minute documentary on Headlines Today - on the young IAS officers posted as Collectors in the Naxal hit districts of Chhattisgarh and Odisha.
*Directed, scripted and anchored “ WAR OVER LAND“ a documentary on how and why the land acquisition conflict was raging across India.
* Directed, scripted and edited “ WHEEL OF TIME “ a one-hour documentary that explored the larger issues of the whole Free Tibet movement.
* Directed, scripted and edited “SUNNY SIDE UP “ commissioned by the PSBT - an introspective look at a small heterogeneous community that refused to be swayed by the politics of religion.
* Directed, scripted and edited Indo-Austrian-Italian venture ‘OF MOUNTAINS AND MONASTERIES…On the footsteps of Tucci ‘ A documentary that traced a portion of the route taken by Guiesepe Tucci during his explorations in the western Himalayas
in the 1930’s. CO-Winner of the 2002 IDPA COPPER AWARD
* Presenter, Director and Video Editor: HIMALAYAN DRIVE TSD RALLY - A short experience of a Time Speed Distance rally...a Tri-Nation Rally from India to Bhutan, Nepal and back...
