He has eleven years of experience in media and social sector. He has won the national media fellowship from National Foundation for India (NFI) in 2012 and best journalist award from "Jyotishree", a Odia magazine based in Odisha in 2013. He is currently doing a short research in University of California, Irvine. He works with a global campaign: Global Call to Action Against Poverty (GCAP) as the Asia Coordinator. He has written extensively on several issues of people's concern and his pieces have been carried in different Indian and global media.