He is now a sobriety campaigner and counsels alcoholics and addicts when he isn't writing. He has been Executive Editor at Tehelka magazine and worked for two decades alongside some of the most luminous names in Indian journalism at Patriot, The Pioneer, and The Indian Express. He has managed newsrooms and helped launch two magazines and a newspaper in English. He has reported and commented on Indian politics, issues of the day, and society in hundreds of articles over the years. In the social sphere, he has been Editor with Greenpeace and also worked with Gene Campaign.