Hey, this is Samarth.

👋 I'm a journalist, writer and coder based in Bombay, India.

🌐 On this site, you can find my blog, links to published work, and ways to contact me.

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About me

📍Born and raised in New Delhi. Moved to Kanpur for college. Back to Delhi to start a career in journalism. Lived in Landour/Mussoorie — a stunningly beautiful mountain town in the lower Western Himalayas — for three years in my late twenties. Now, building a relationship with Bombay.

❤️ I love reading, drinking coffee, dancing, taking care of my body, and walking leisurely. Blessed with an addiction to freedom and solitude.

💡I live for big ideas and small details, always nerding out on statistics, writing, philosophy, epistemology, technology, media, and human nature. I enjoy finding cross-disciplinary patterns to make sense of the world.

👨‍🎓 Spent my undergrad learning the fundamentals of math, engineering and computer science at IIT Kanpur. Worked at a tech startup. Revamped the student magazine. Had a lot of fun. Graduated in 2015.

💼 Worked as a reporter with The Hindu and Hindustan Times. In 2018, spent life-changing five months as a reporting fellow with The Wall Street Journal's investigative team in New York. Left full-time work in January 2019. Freelanced for five years. And now, back to the building phase...

Current Work

I'm at an interesting stage of my career where I work two jobs.

One: I'm building The Plank, a journalistic magazine to help our readers become better citizens. We will launch in November 2024.

Two: In June 2024, I joined The Whole Truth Foods to lead Media Labs. I wrote about how I ended up at TWT here.