Nitin Padte

Nitin Padte has over twenty years of experience as a journalist, reporting on nuclear energy, environment, education, politics, and culture. He has worked with The Times of India group as News Editor, and The Indian Express group as a city editor and Chief of Bureau for Western India; he also reported for the latter from Kodai. He taught journalism and economics at Kodaikanal International School for seven years; then, at Mahindra United World College, Pune; subsequently, in leadership roles at Ecole Mondiale World School and Don Bosco International School. He is a senior trainer at Adhyayan and is based in Goa.

A popular figure around Kodai town, Minoo Avari has fought to help preserve the environment of this town on multiple fronts and over several decades—a feisty thorn in the municipality’s side. Photo: Azad Reese

No Ordinary Hero: In Conversation with Minoo Avari

by Nitin Padte

June 7, 2023January 8, 2024

Kodaikanal has tended to attract all sorts of people, ever since the first missionaries arrived over a…

Read...

Specials of the Day: Sambar, Rasam, and Murder

by Nitin Padte

October 30, 2021May 23, 2022

An interview with Nirupama Subramanian, the author of Murder on the Menu, an astutely observed true crime…

Read...