The Reporters' Collective • 4th April 2022

How Indian central bank's independence was challenged

In the investigative series on India’s monetary policy, I found evidence of India's finance ministry’s attempts at making inroads into the RBI and nibble away its independence in setting the country’s monetary policy, which primarily aims to keep prices stable. The three-part investigation, published by Al-Jazeera, is based on thousands of documents I obtained using the freedom of information law.

The Wire • 16th February 2018

Indian government secretly commissioned 'independent' 7 million jobs study

My source-driven investigation exposed how an ‘independent’ report by two economists, showing robust job creation in India a year before the national elections, was secretly commissioned by the government. By doing so, the Modi administration gave unauthorised access to private data of citizens.

Al Jazeera • 30th November 2024

Amazon faces Indian court scrutiny for labour conditions at warehouse

Documents I scooped for Al-Jazeera investigation showed how Amazon is facing prosecution in an Indian court for labour law violations at a major warehouse near the country’s national capital of Delhi. Warehouse workers I spoke to detail stories of an unsafe work environment and unreasonable targets at the warehouse.

Business Standard • 31st January 2019

Unemployment rate at four-decade high of 6.1% in 2017-18

Using my investigative skills, I sourced data suppressed by the Indian government, revealing that India's unemployment rate reached a 45-year high in 2018. I then wrote a series of stories based on this data, incorporating my own calculations to analyse the trends.

Business Standard • 14th November 2019

Consumer spending sees first fall in 4 decades on weak rural demand

After receiving a suppressed official report from a whistleblower, I used my data skills to calculate changes in India's consumer spending by applying an inflation deflator. Data pointed to a slump in consumer spending first time in four decades. Following my report, the government junked the data.

Los Angeles Times • 11th July 2022

New tenants feel the rent inflation pinch

Amid criticism of the Bureau of Labor Statistics for underestimating inflation for renters, I obtained exclusive official data for the L.A. Times, revealing how annual rental costs for new tenants surged in 2022. BLS has now started regularly releasing this data.

Business Standard • 1st February 2020

Business Standard's budget coverage of 2020

As a member of the data team at Business Standard, I contributed to planning, creating, and visualising the 2020 budget edition. We chose economic slowdown as the central theme for our graphics, preparing the data stories days ahead of the budget speech.

Business Standard • 1st August 2013

Business Standard's data reporter

Beginning my career as a data reporter at India's Business Standard in 2013, I contributed to the newspaper's special coverage and consistently wrote data stories for the economy section.