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The People Behind Decode
Aakriti Sanghi
An alumna of Hansraj College, Delhi University, Aakriti Sanghi studied Economics and Commerce and found her way to storytelling through instinct and curiosity. Her work spans poetry, reportage, and digital storytelling, with features in Vogue India, The Quint, MensXP, Live Wire, and more. She has written across beats, including lifestyle, entertainment, education, digital culture, mental health, and the environment — always led by empathy and quiet observation. 'Between & Beyond,' her debut poetry collection, marks her first appearance in print.
Aarushi Agrawal
Aarushi Agrawal is a culture journalist with an interest in research, reading, writing, and spending time with her cat.
Abir Dasgupta
Abir Dasgupta is an independent journalist based in New Delhi. He investigates crony capitalism and the nexus of business and politics in India.
Alisha Dutta
Correspondent
Alisha Dutta is a correspondent with BOOM live. She has worked with several media publications like Article 14, IndiaSpend and Outlook Magazine. Her reportage focusses on the intersection of gender and technology, peoples' movement, human rights and feminist joy.
Anmol Alphonso
Fact Checker
Anmol Alphonso is a fact-checker with BOOM. He has previously interned at IndiaSpend as a fact-checker and was a reporting intern at Times of India, Indian Express, and Mid-Day. He is a post-graduate diploma holder in journalism from St Paul’s Institute of Communication Education, Mumbai.
Asad Ashraf
Asad Ashraf is a Delhi-based independent journalist with an interest in politics, human rights, minorities and the internet.
Dipanjan Sinha
Dipanjan Sinha is an independent writer with a focus on all things culture, politics and their intersections.
Gargi Verma
Gargi Verma is an independent journalist based out of Chhattisgarh. She has previously worked with The Indian Express and Mirror. She also works as a project associate at Conflictorium, a museum of Conflict in Raipur. She reports on conflict, climate, agriculture, internal security, identity and gender.
Hazel Gandhi
Hazel is a 22-year-old fact checker based in Mumbai. A mass media graduate from St Xavier's College, Mumbai, Hazel covered social media trends and pop culture at The Quint before pursuing fact checking full-time.
Jaishree Kumar
Jaishree Kumar is a journalist, writer and documentary filmmaker who covers the intersection between queer rights, culture, climate and the internet. Her work has been featured on VICE, Deutsche Welle, Thomson Reuters Foundation and more. She divides her time between New Delhi and the Himalayas.
Kashif Kakvi
Kashif Kakvi is an independent multimedia journalist who reports from central India-- Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh. His reporting revolves around policies, governance and human rights, focussing on marginalised communities. He tweets at @KashifKakvi
Noor Anand Chawla
Noor Anand Chawla is an independent features writer based in New Delhi, whose work has appeared in many Indian and international publications. She was the victim of the FedEx- Mumbai and Aadhar card screenshot cyber scam in March and June 2023 respectively.
Poorvi Gupta
Poorvi Gupta is an independent journalist based in New Delhi. She mainly covers sociopolitical issues through a gender perspective
Puja Bhattacharjee
Puja Bhattacharjee is an independent journalist based in Kolkata. She writes about health, science, policy, social justice, LGBTQ issues and culture.
Riddhi Dastidar
Riddhi Dastidar is a writer in Delhi covering disability justice, gender, rights, and culture.
Samriddhi Sakunia
Samriddhi Sakunia is a freelance journalist who covers education, healthcare and policy issues.
Saritha S Balan
A journalist based in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, with a long and varied career in the Indian media.
Srinivas Kodali
Srinivas Kodali is a researcher on digitisation in India and identifies as a hacktivist
Sumaiya Ali
Sumaiya Ali is an independent journalist based in India. She writes on human rights, geopolitics and the media landscape in South Asia.
Vipul Kumar
Vipul Kumar is an independent journalist based in New Delhi. He reports on human rights and the intersection of society and technology. Twitter @
Yogesh Sadhwani
Yogesh Sadhwani is an independent journalist who has covered crime and courts for over two decades for national dailies. Some of his work has been converted into suo moto PILs by the Bombay High Court.
Swasti Chatterjee
News editor (East)
Swasti Chatterjee is BOOM’s News Editor (East) and project coordinator of the two international verticals of BOOM in Dhaka (Bangladesh) and Yangon (Myanmar). She is a fact-checker and media literacy trainer; Swasti has worked in the mainstream media in the capacity of a senior correspondent and chief copy editor with publications including The Times of India, The Indian Express and NDTV.com. She has majorly covered films, education and city while her tenure with these organisations
Shefali Srivastava
Journalist by profession, writer by passion, Shefali has 10 Years of Experience in the field of journalism. During this tenure she has worked with several organisations of Print media and digital Media including Dainik Bhaskar Digital, Gaon Connection and Navbharat Times Digital. She has done her Masters in Mass Communication and Political Science. She has an interest in Health, Women and Politics. She has done health related stories and video interviews during COVID-19, Human Angle and women oriented stories during elections. She has also worked with election special teams. She loves to read Hindi-Urdu Literature & cinema.
Archis Chowdhury
Senior Correspondent - Data and Policy
Archis is a Senior Correspondent at BOOM, and covers issues related to technology and politics, along with writing fact-checks, and studying mis/disinformation. He has a bachelor's degree in political science from Paris Institute of Political Studies, and a master's degree in Media Studies (specialising in political communication), under the Erasmus Mundus Journalism Programme - a joint degree provided by Aarhus University of Denmark, and the University of Amsterdam. Prior to BOOM, Archis had worked as a freelance reporter for The Times of India, covering business news, and has also interned as a reporter for The Telegraph - ABP Group, covering local stories in Kolkata. His interests lie in sports - specifically running, cycling, and occasionally punching and kicking heavy bags - and he also likes to practice Vipassana meditation. His most enduring romance is with food - he loves to eat, as he loves to cook and feed others. Archis is also quite a geek and a nerd, and is obsessed with digital privacy, video games and science-fiction.
Adrija Bose
Adrija Bose is a Senior Editor at BOOM Live. She has worked across several media publications including Firstpost, HuffPost India and CNN-News18. Her reportage focussing on gender, politics, human rights, environment and the Internet culture has won her several awards. She has won three UN Laadli Awards for gender sensitivity in reporting, the 2019 RedInk Awards for her reporting on Meghalaya’s coal miners and the Polestar Award for her story on Haryana’s female footballers. She leads Decode, a vertical for BOOM where the focus is on the intersection between technology and people's lives. She commissions, edits and reports on polarisation, disinformation and human rights.
Kaisar Andrabi
Kaisar Andrabi
Kaisar Andrabi is a correspondent of BOOM with four years of experience in reporting. He is based in Delhi and covers Politics, Human Rights, Gender, Health and Education. His work has been published in reputed media organisations like Foreign Policy, The Diplomat, Al Jazeera, Nikkei Asia, Huffpost, Article14, The Wire and others. He started his journalistic career in 2018 with The Kashmir Walla (a local popular magazine in Kashmir) as a features writer before switching to freelancer in 2019. He has travelled across the embattled region to document stories of human suffering, political costs and economic losses. In 2021, during the second wave of Covid -19, he produced a film for Indiaspend from Delhi about the failure of the government in handling the health crises across the country. He also wrote about challenges faced by the health workers in Delhi who were working tirelessly as the pandemic swept through the city. He Tweets @KAndrabi
Karen Rebelo
Karen Rebelo works as an investigative reporter, fact-checker and a copy-editor at BOOM. Her specialization includes spotting and debunking fake images and viral fake videos. Karen is a former Reuters wires journalist and has covered the resources sector in the UK and the Indian stock market and private equity sector. She cut her teeth as a prime-time television producer doing business news shows.
Divya Chandra
Divya Chandra is Producer, Workshops and Training at BOOM FactCheck. She conducts training sessions and LIVE workshops to teach the art of fact-checking. Previously, she was Correspondent-Fact Check at The Quint. She did her Masters in Journalism from Symbiosis Institute of Media & Communication, Pune. When not fact-checking, you can find her at a cafe next door.
Nivedita Niranjankumar
News Editor (South)
A former city correspondent covering crime, Nivedita is a fact checker at BOOM and works to stop the spread of disinformation and misinformation. When not at work, she escapes into second-hand bookstores, looking for magic or a mystery.
Ritika Jain
Assistant Editor - Law
After an almost decade-long career as a photojournalist, Ritika returned to the fold as a journalist and now covers the Indian judiciary and all that it entails. Originally from Mumbai, she is now based out of Delhi. Ritika is a writer, part-time dreamer & full-time K-drama addict. A true Mumbaiite, Ritika graduated from Jai Hind College and completed her Masters from University of Westminster, London. Through her writing, she hopes to simplify the law, and decode the judiciary. Before joining BOOM, Ritika worked with several digital news portals, and cut her teeth with newspapers like DNA, and The Indian Express. Ritika started her career as a journalist, but found solace in photography. However, a decade later, she returned to the journalism where she found her true calling in writing stories. If not bingeing on k-dramas, you will find Ritika escaping the city and discovering the world.
Rohit Kumar
Rohit is a fact-checker with BOOMLIVE. He has previously worked in DD News and with Gaon Connection as a freelancer. He has done his post-graduate diploma in Hindi Journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New Delhi.
Sana Fazili
Desk Writer
Sana Fazili Was a Desk Writer at BOOM and worked for the daily news coverage here. She wrote explainers and breaking news stories as they happen. She started her career in one of the busiest newsrooms in the country. After a task of over three years, she decided to tread into the territory of well-researched news put in context. News is beyond 5W1H, after all.