Bio

I work at K12 Inc. as a media editor. I have been involved in visual journalism for the last 12 years and have worked at National Geographic (2007 – 2008) as News Photo Editor Earlier; at The Associated Press as Photo Editor at the South Asia bureau (2002- 06); The Week as Picture Coordinator (2002 – 02); Businessworld as Researcher and Photo Librarian (1999-2002), Outlook as freelance photographer(1998-1999); and Editorial Executive at Travel Market India (1997-1998). As a writer and photographer I have also freelanced and contributed for Chronicle for Higher Education,  The Washington Times, The Eureka Reporter (the paper has ceased publication), SPAN, India Today, Focused Images Photography Inc, The Financial Times.

When not editing I follow my other passions – writing, photography, keeping updated on copyrights and intellectual laws, digital archiving and technologies, cooking, travel, checking out hole-in-the-wall restaurants and playing squash.

I run a food blog which chronicles what I cook and sometimes experimentation with food – http://dustandcolor.wordpress.com/

Though I live in Washington DC now, I was born and brought up in Bombay, and trace my roots to a small non-descriptive village in Kerala. I spent a big chunk of my childhood in Tanzania, shuttled few years between India and Dubai, and worked in Delhi for eight years.