Our team
IndiaWorldEye is staffed by a roster of writers organised around the beats that matter most to Indian readers watching the world.
World
Ananya Ghosh
democracy · authoritarianism · russia
Ananya Ghosh writes on the global contest between democratic and authoritarian systems, with a focus on Russia, Eastern Europe, and the long shadow of Soviet history. Her essays bring historical depth to the question of what India owes, and does not owe, to the older democracies of the West.
Arjun Malhotra
geopolitics · globalization · foreign policy
Arjun Malhotra writes on globalization, technology diplomacy, and the strategic arithmetic of a multipolar world. His column ranges from Delhi's boardrooms to West Asian capitals, with a particular interest in how Indian interests are shaped by the friction between great powers.
Lakshmi Iyer
middle east · north africa · foreign affairs
Lakshmi Iyer has reported from West Asia and North Africa for two decades. Her writing draws on a dense network of sources across the region to explain how its fault lines are moving — and why each tremor matters for India's energy, diaspora, and security interests.
Rohan Bhattacharya
international affairs · great power competition · global order
Rohan Bhattacharya is a foreign-affairs essayist whose work focuses on the shifting order of the twenty-first century — the rise of the global south, the retreat of liberalism, and the grammar of great-power competition. He returns often to the question of where India fits in the world being built.
India
Chandan Sarkar
indian politics · political biography · hindi belt
Chandan Sarkar writes political biography in its most useful form — using the life of a figure to explain the institutions that made them possible. He has written on prime ministers and party leaders, and reports closely on the Hindi belt.
Dhananjay Nambiar
interviews · indian politics · public intellectuals
Dhananjay Nambiar conducts long-form interview journalism with political figures, jurists, and public intellectuals. His columns draw on the interviews to extend arguments that begin on camera.
Farah Siddiqui
indian politics · identity · communal affairs
Farah Siddiqui writes on Indian politics with a focus on identity, community, and the management of majorities and minorities. Her essays move between the national and the regional, tracking how political language gets remade by each election cycle.
Mihir Kaushik
institutions · democracy · political theory
Mihir Kaushik writes on Indian democracy as an institutional problem — what makes courts, parliaments, universities, and agencies work or fail. His columns are written for readers who think the quality of institutions is the decisive question of the next decade.
Pooja Shah
indian politics · political parties · digital campaigns
Pooja Shah reports on Indian political parties as institutions — their funding, their networks, their enforcement mechanisms. Her work has set the agenda on digital political warfare and the quiet infrastructures that drive election campaigns.
Rajiv Kulkarni
indian politics · governance · strategic affairs
Rajiv Kulkarni has covered Indian politics for three decades, moving between Delhi's corridors and the country's state capitals. His column is read for its institutional memory — the ability to place today's political contests inside longer arcs that most daily reporting cannot see.
Rudra Bhatt
indian politics · foreign policy · press freedom
Rudra Bhatt writes on Indian politics, foreign policy, and the pressures on the press at the intersection of the two. His column is read closely by those who disagree with it and those who rely on it.
Suresh Ambedkar
elections · democratic theory · political analysis
Suresh Ambedkar combines electoral data with a theorist's eye for what majorities and minorities mean in a democracy the size of India's. He writes for readers who want numbers and argument in the same paragraph.
Sushma Bhatnagar
indian politics · elections · political history
Sushma Bhatnagar has covered every general election since the 1980s. Her writing brings the long view to Indian politics — the slow accumulation of trends that look like surprises only to those who arrived recently.
Economy & Business
Bhavesh Patel
macroeconomics · public economics · policy
Bhavesh Patel writes on economics as public argument. His columns translate technical questions — inflation, labour markets, fiscal policy — into the terms that matter for readers who have to live with the decisions.
Niharika Sen
development economics · poverty · inequality
Niharika Sen writes on development economics — the mechanisms that let some economies pull vast populations out of poverty and leave others stuck. She writes in a register that is accessible without being thin.
Sanjay Gupta
asian markets · corporate india · banking
Sanjay Gupta writes a sharp daily column on Asian business — banks, tycoons, listings, state capitalism. He writes for readers who treat the region's corporate news as a political story told with balance sheets.
Technology
Reena Kapoor
cybersecurity · state hacking · digital espionage
Reena Kapoor writes on cybersecurity as a national-security beat — the state-backed intrusions, the zero-day markets, the defenders who never get to claim a win. She has covered major incidents affecting Indian targets and has sourcing across the ecosystem.
Sonal Choudhary
algorithmic accountability · privacy · data rights
Sonal Choudhary reports on how algorithms and data practices shape the lives of users — from credit scoring to facial recognition to the advertising that funds the open web. Her investigations have pushed policy debates across multiple jurisdictions.
Defense & Security
Colonel (Retd.) Rakesh Dhawan (pen)
indian military · defence acquisitions · border security
Rakesh Dhawan has covered the Indian military for over twenty years, from borderline skirmishes to the paperwork of major acquisitions. His reporting is written for readers who want the specifics — the platforms, the contracts, the operational picture.
General (Retd.) Partha Banerjee (pen)
strategic affairs · foreign policy · indo pacific
Partha Banerjee writes on Indian strategic affairs — the doctrine papers, the force-structure debates, and the slow rebalancing of the Indo-Pacific. He brings a scholar's discipline to a beat that too often relies on anonymous briefings alone.
Sheena Thomas
us military · defence policy · conflict
Sheena Thomas covers global military affairs with a particular focus on the US defence establishment and how its decisions ripple through partner countries like India. She has reported from conflict zones and from classified briefings.
Vikas Chaudhry
indian military · china pakistan · two front
Vikas Chaudhry writes on Indian defence with a particular focus on the two-front problem — the structural questions China and Pakistan pose and what Indian planners are actually doing about them. His work is argumentative and empirical at once.
Opinion & Analysis
Aditi Ramachandran
editorial · strategic affairs · foreign policy
Malavika Raghunathan is the Editor-in-Chief of IndiaWorldEye. She writes the flagship weekly editorial and leads the publication's strategic coverage of foreign affairs, Indian statecraft, and the reordering of global power. Her column sets the masthead's editorial line on the questions that will shape the next decade of Indian public life.
Bhaskar Das
politics · history · caste race
Bhaskar Das writes a column rooted in history. He treats the political present as the result of decisions made decades earlier, and is particularly interested in the long histories of caste, race, and exclusion.
Harish Ramanathan
social commentary · politics · culture
Harish Ramanathan writes social commentary that moves between political analysis, sociology, and moral philosophy. His essays take the long view on questions that daily journalism can only gesture at.
Jahan Khurshid
cultural commentary · politics · cricket
Jahan Khurshid writes essays that cross easily between politics, cricket, and cinema. The column argues that a country's cultural life is the first place its political pressures make themselves felt.
Kabir Saxena
politics · policy · institutions
Kabir Saxena writes long essays on politics, policy, and institutions, often shaped around a single question that gets turned over for several thousand words. His columns are built on interviews and structured argument rather than hot takes.
Raghunath Iyengar
indian political economy · reform · philosophy
Raghunath Iyengar writes on the Indian political economy with the mind of a reformer and the voice of a moralist. His essays connect the country's economic choices to older questions about duty, virtue, and the good life.
Sameer Joshi
conservative opinion · religion · culture
Sameer Joshi writes a conservative column alert to the religious and cultural undercurrents of political life. His work often argues against the prevailing consensus and is read seriously by those who disagree with it.
Suhas Patwardhan
history · democracy · essays
Suhas Patwardhan writes on Indian democracy from a historian's chair — with archives, with context, and with the insistence that public argument benefits from knowing what was said before. His essays move between the republic's founders and its present custodians.
Science & Environment
Anisha Rao
health · indian business · narrative
Anisha Rao writes long-form narrative journalism at the intersection of health, business, and Indian public life. Her essays trace individual stories to make larger arguments about how institutions deliver — or fail to.
Ayaan Malik
general science · research · ethics
Ayaan Malik is a science writer with a wide brief — medicine, climate, AI ethics, space. His writing is anchored in interviews with working researchers and an insistence on what the evidence does and does not support.
Mala Venkat
biology · public health · infectious disease
Mala Venkat reports on biology and public health in long-form. Her COVID-era work set a standard for how to write about epidemic science for general readers; she continues to cover the biology that shapes everyday life.
Prashant Kale
biology · genetics · medicine
Prashant Kale writes on biology, genetics, and the science of life in motion. He argues that the public conversation on health and medicine benefits from readers who know how the underlying biology works.
Riya Srinivasan
public health · global health · epidemics
Riya Srinivasan reports on global public health — the epidemics, the vaccine programmes, the health systems that absorb the consequences of both. Her work spans India's own public-health apparatus and its partners across the global south.
Sujata Chatterjee
climate · biodiversity · environment
Sujata Chatterjee writes long-form reportage on climate, biodiversity, and the long emergency. Her essays take readers into the field — glaciers, coral reefs, farmland under stress — and return with arguments that will not be dismissed easily.
Culture & Society
Ira Sharma
cultural criticism · essays · internet culture
Ira Sharma writes cultural criticism — on internet life, on the texture of late consumer capitalism, on the quiet politics of taste. Her essays move between the scenes of everyday life and the arguments they reveal.
Om Patwardhan
urban · migration · cities
Om Patwardhan writes about Indian cities and the migration that feeds them — their economies, their chaos, and the lives that emerge in the space between. His writing has the density of long observation and an unusual patience for the ordinary.
Seema Anand
diaspora · history · gender
Seema Anand writes on the Indian diaspora — not as a success story but as an archive of histories the metropole often forgets. Her essays use individual lives to open out the long structures of indenture, migration, and post-colonial citizenship.
Investigations
Aarav Rao
investigations · power · accountability
Aarav Rao reports long, patient investigations into abuses of power — corporate, political, institutional. His work has been distinguished by persistence in the face of legal pressure from the subjects of reporting.
Hina Rizvi
investigations · political violence · human rights
Hina Rizvi reports on political violence and its aftermath in India — the official records, the silences, and the voices that ordinarily go unheard. She has published long-form work that continues to set the terms of debate.
Meenakshi Shanker
institutions · workplace · investigations
Meenakshi Shanker reports on how institutions handle — or fail to handle — allegations of abuse, discrimination, and rule-breaking. Her investigations draw on documents as much as on sources.
Shailesh Pillai
influence · government · records
Shailesh Pillai reports on the plumbing of influence — how corporations, lobbies, and well-placed individuals bend government decisions in their favour. He works from filings, contracts, and the slow unglamorous reading of public records.
Tara Kulhari
labor · migration · informal economy
Tara Kulhari reports on labour, migration, and the systems that determine how people live and work at the edges of the formal economy. Her investigations have forced policy changes in multiple jurisdictions.
South Asia
China Watch
Biren Kashyap
china · india china · lac
Biren Kashyap covers China for an Indian audience — the Communist Party's internal politics, the Indian border questions, the diplomatic and economic engagement that will not simply go away. His reporting is unusual for its access to Chinese-language sources.
Jai Subramanian
china india · comparative development · institutions
Jai Subramanian writes comparative analysis of Chinese and Indian development — the institutions, the demography, the policy choices that made the two economies what they are. His essays argue for taking the comparison seriously rather than treating it as metaphor.
US & Americas
Middle East & Africa
Energy & Climate
Kishore Tandon
indian environment · climate negotiations · forest policy
Kishore Tandon reports on Indian environmental policy — the forest clearances, the air-quality monitoring, the climate negotiations where India's negotiating positions are set. His investigations have reshaped national debates.
Tushar Bansal
clean energy · decarbonisation · climate tech
Tushar Bansal covers decarbonisation — the technologies, the capital, the policies — and is particularly attentive to India's place in the global clean-energy build-out. His work is aimed at readers who want to understand the economics of the transition.
Urmila Sawant
climate policy · carbon · energy transition
Urmila Sawant writes on climate science and the policies responding to it — carbon budgets, energy transitions, the question of who pays. Her work treats climate as an engineering and political problem at the same time.
