I started my career the way a lot of good editors do — by being obsessive about getting the details right. Six years in editorial research at The New Indian Express taught me how to verify a fact, structure a story, and work under a deadline that doesn't move. That instinct hasn't gone anywhere; I've just started pointing it at a wider set of problems.

Somewhere along the way, I realized the skills that made me good at research — finding the real story, understanding an audience, editing ruthlessly, are the same skills that make content strategy and social media work well. So I started building that muscle deliberately: running my own Instagram series from scratch, learning to plan a content calendar the way I'd plan a research brief, and picking up tools like Canva and Gemini to move faster from idea to finished asset.

Before journalism, I spent time as an HR recruiter, sourcing healthcare professionals for overseas placements — work that had nothing to do with content on paper, but everything to do with understanding what an audience needs to hear and how to say it clearly. It's a strange thread to pull on a portfolio site, but it's part of why I think about communication as something you build for a specific person, not into the void.

I hold an MA in English Literature from Mount Carmel College and a BA in History, English Literature & Political Science from Mangalore University — five languages, one persistent habit of over-editing my own sentences.

Right now, I'm looking for the next place to put all of this to work: Content Strategy, Social Media Management, or Corporate & Internal Communications roles where the writing matters as much as the strategy behind it.