The Week journalists and reporters

Akanki Sharma

Ghaziabad, India

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Akanki Sharma is a journalist.

Claude Arpi

Puducherry, India

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Claude Arpi is a writer based in Auroville near Puducherry, India.

Faisal Mahmud

Dhaka, Bangladesh

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Faisal Mahmud is a journalist with over a decade of experience in working with three national English daily newspapers of Bangladesh—The Independent, Dhaka Tribune and The Business Standard.  Before switching his career to professional journalism, Faisal worked in the IT industry for two years. He ...

Ayanangsha Maitra

Kolkata, India

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With over 5 years experience in Print and Digital media, I've been covering issues on/in Indo-Bangladesh border, Drug Smuggling, Border Security etc for media as well as global research organization. 

As the Senior editor of New Delhi based The CEO Magazine ( and the group's other publication), ...

Ksenia Kondratieva

Mumbai, India

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Freelance journalist currently based in Mumbai, India. Write on international relations & and geopolitics with its relation to business. Covers various sectors of business, including oil & gas, defense, banking & finance, telecom & IT, among others. 
For the past 3 years, have been closely ...

Sanjay Pandey

Bengaluru, India

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I am a multi-platform journalist with work published in different Indian and international media outlets, including Aljazeera English, DW, Friday Magazine, Barcroft TV and The Sun. I also take up fixing assignments and work with international journalists with their projects in Indian subcontinent. ...

Akila Jayawardena

Colombo, Sri Lanka

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Akila Jayawardena is an independent visual journalist based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Since 2017, he has built a strong reputation for documenting the country's most defining moments from the 2018 Constitutional Crisis and 2019 Easter Bombings to the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2022 Economic Crisis ...

Claire Lancaster

London, United Kingdom

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Claire Lancaster is a journalist based in London, United Kingdom. She holds degrees in international relations and political science and a master’s in international journalism from City, University of London. She is currently the tech and lifestyle editor at Culture Trip, a digital platform ...

Pirzada Shakir

Delhi, India

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Pirzada Shakir is a multimedia journalist based in Jammu and Kashmir, India. He extensively writes on defense, conflict, identity conflict, human rights, gender, social issues, environment and politics. His work has been published in different international and Indian media outlets including Press ...

Ramesh Pokhrel

Kathmandu, Nepal

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Ramesh Pokhrel is an Investigative journalist, Researcher based in Kathmandu (and also New Delhi). 

Areas of Focus / Coverage

Crime & Justice, Politics, Military affairs, Geopolitics, foreign & global affairs, current affairs across Asia.

Shevlin Sebastian

Kochi, India

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Shevlin Sebastian is a feature writer based in Kochi, India. He is also an author of children's books and true crime. He has a story-telling ability. This has helped him in writing engaging articles that are simple and readable.