Anantha Narayanan has been a reporter covering defence, aviation, education and excise news since 2016. He started his career as a part-time reporter at The Times of India. Since 2018, he is working for The Times of India in Kochi, Kerala. He is postgraduate in English (Christ University, Bangalore) and a first-rankholder in PG Diploma in Print Journalism (Institute of Journalism, Thiruvananthapuram).