About

Samarth Bansal is a skilled journalist and computer programmer with a passion for writing code and stories. With over 11 years of relevant experience, Samarth has become a highly respected professional in his field. As a journalist, Samarth has written long-form stories for various Indian and international publications, focusing on the intersection of technology, politics, and policy. His freelance work has appeared in The Atlantic, HuffPost India, Livemint, India Today, and Quartz, among others. Samarth believes in old-school reporting values and strives to provide rigorous, fact-based, contextual, and in-depth reportage. He is always open to critical feedback from readers and domain experts, as it helps him improve his work. To better understand the nuances of systems and untangle the different parts of the machinery that make them work, Samarth likes to have background conversations with insiders. He believes that this dialogue is essential and is grateful for the time people spend speaking with him. Samarth is also a back-end software developer and data scientist with a particular focus on the Python stack. He loves solving complex engineering problems and building things. Samarth's engineering philosophy centers around foundations, not just implementing solutions through libraries. Currently, Samarth works as an Editorial Consultant for the Data Intelligence Unit at India Today. He has also worked with the data journalism teams of the Hindustan Times and The Hindu, and completed a five-month data fellowship with the investigative reporting team of The Wall Street Journal in New York City. Samarth holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Scientific Computing from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur. He is highly skilled in Python, data science, research science, backend, and software engineering. To keep up with Samarth's work, readers can sign up for The Interval, his fortnightly newsletter, which explores the truth-seeking process and forces that distort it.