I am a journalist and writer.
As a journalist, I have won awards for my reportage, essay writing and work as an editor.
- During my time as a reporter in The Independent, Mumbai, I won a Goethe Institut scholarship in 1993, on which I studied advanced German in Berlin and reported on developments after the country was reunified.
- For my work in The Independent, I was the runner-up of two finalists in 1994 for the Dhiren Bhagat Award for young journalists.
- During my time as The Statesman‘s correspondent for western India, based in Mumbai, I received the 1996 Chevening Award for Young Journalists, granted by the British government to early-career Indians, during which I spent a several months in London.
- I contributed the main report to and anchored a package of stories in the Hindustan Times that won the Ramnath Goenka Award for Spot Reporting, for coverage of the terrorist attack on Mumbai in November 2008.
- I won the Red Ink Award for an essay on Hindustani music that appeared in The Caravan magazine in 2015.
- Three other articles of mine made it to the shortlists for the Red Ink Award.
As a writer, I received support for working on The Secret Master.
- I received a grant from The Raza Foundation.
- I received a grant from the Dr. Ashok Da Ranade Memorial Trust.
- I was selected for a residency at The Sangam House.
Other
I live in Bengaluru, but have one foot in Mumbai, where I grew up and was based for the bulk of my career. For relaxation, I sing, swim and practise yoga. I am a student of the khayal vocalist Arun Kashalkar, the protagonist of my book, The Secret Master.
I am married to Jaikumar Radhakrishnan, a theoretical computer scientist. We are the parents of twins, Ritvik Ramanan Radhakrishnan and Samhita Ramanan Radhakrishnan.
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