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.

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.

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.

The Caravan • 31st March 2022

Nirmala Sitharaman's rise as spin doctor for Narendra Modi's broken economy

I wrote a 15,000-word investigative profile of India’s finance minister, Nirmala Sitharaman, which appeared as the cover story in The Caravan magazine. The piece explored her shift from a distinct ideological background to joining a Hindu nationalist party and assessed her economic record in depth.

Business Standard • 31st January 2019

India's unemployment rate At four-decade high, suppressed report shows

Through a trusted network of sources, I obtained suppressed data revealing India’s unemployment rate soaring to a 45-year high—a story that made global headlines and was picked up by The Guardian, New York Times, the Washington Post, Al-Jazeera.

TheQuint • 31st March 2021

Modi government took short cuts to expand privatisation before budget

I investigated, in a three-part series for BloombergQuint (now NDTV Profit) through hundreds of FOI documents, the internal resistance to India’s privatisation policy and how the Modi government pushed it through, skipping some legal consultation processes.

Business Standard • 14th November 2019

India suppresses report showing consumer spending falling first time in 4 decades

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.

Business Standard • 21st June 2018

Fraud-ridden Punjab National Bank says it never received a critical email from banking regulator

I covered India’s biggest banking fraud, breaking new details through deep sources within the sector. My report reveals that Punjab National Bank, India’s second-largest state-owned lender, claimed it never received a crucial directive from the banking regulator in November 2016, a key detail in investigative agencies’ probe.