He has more than three decades of experience with newspapers and TV news channel. His background includes rich experience of reporting, editing, re-writing news and features for daily newspapers - print and online. For the past over 10 years he has been in the UAE where he worked as a senior journalist with Dubai's leading English-language newspaper Khaleej Times (www.khaleejtimes.com) until he formed his own freelance company Downtown to work as an independent journalist.