Rajesh Kumar Email & Phone Number

Greater Chennai Area

* Was in-charge of Sify Finance, then one of India's top online Finance destinations, and Sify Sports* Covered the Union budgets and Rail budgets live. Our 2013 budget coverage was carried on the websites of The Hindu, Deccan Herald, The Hindu Business Line, and Mathrubhumi.* Interviewed top economists like Dr Ha-Joon Chang, the Financial Times' Gideon Rachman, world-famous derivatives expert Satyajit Das, noted economist Jayati Ghosh, and Liaquat Ahamed, author of Lords of Finance, among others.* Notable interviews for Sify News included those with the world-famous Indian neuroscientist Dr VS Ramachandran (did the launch interview for his book The Tell-Tale Brain in India), Frank Dikkoter, the author of the award-winning Mao's Great Famine, and the Financial Times' Richard McGregor, the author of what can be termed the definitive book on the Chinese Communist Party. Helmed live coverages of elections - state and national. Anchored many specials.

Worked on special projects and wrote and edited articles

* Was in charge of conceiving, launching and anchoring all Sports specials. The key specials among them were IPL 2009, the Cricket World Cup, Wimbledon 2008, Olympics 2008 and the 2006 Football World Cup* Anchored video coverages of cricketing series'* Ghost-wrote columns for former Indian Test captain Krish Srikkanth and organised chats with him and MS Dhoni among others. * Wrote articles, features, and edited, re-wrote reports, features for Sify News, Sify Movies and Sify Sports * Was part of the team that launched Sify Max (Sify’s audio and video site)* Co-anchored the opening seasons of Indian Idol, Bigg Boss, Sa re ga ma pa, Fame Gurukul, and anchored the video coverage of Wimbledon 2005, 2006 on Sify Max* Led interactions with other teams and with content providers, contributors to ensure the best possible coverage of events

* Edited, wrote and re-wrote news reports, match bulletins and articles for sponsored features and in-house products * Coordinated with contributors and editorial offices around the world to ensure the timely flow of news and articles* Ghost-wrote columns for former Test cricketers like Krish Srikkanth and Erapalli Prasanna among others* Edited Cricinfo’s daily newsletter, CricInfo daily, at various points of time, and produced and sent out a thrice-a-week India-on-tour HTML newsletter called 'On the Road'

* Was in charge of editing, re-writing news reports and hosting them on time* I also wrote a weekly Masala column (featuring interesting happenings on and off the cricketing field) based on inputs from a well-connected source

Post-Graduate Diploma, Journalism

Honours Diploma In Network Centred Computing, Computer Science

Ba, English Literature

Schooling