Rahul is presently a consulting editor with Network18 where he anchors a nightly primetime opinion show, The Hard Facts, on CNN-News18. Rahul began his career as a print reporter, pounding the streets and then Delhi’s courtrooms for stories. As a beat reporter for the Times of India over 20 years ago, he broke a record number of stories and after 13 months he was promoted to the edit page as one of the youngest-ever leader writers at the paper.

But TV beckoned. As a broadcast journalist Rahul has served as the Editor-In-Chief of Times Now between December 2016 and June 2023. Under his editorship Times Now won several “Channel of the Year” awards. Apart from playing a pivotal role in steering the channel, Rahul also conceived and anchored India Upfront, a 60-minute nightly debate show that topped the ratings. The show echoed Rahul’s commitment to bringing back the focus on hard facts that separate news from rhetoric. India Upfront won several TV excellence awards.

In the recent past, Rahul has interviewed many heads of government and newsmakers,  including Narendra Modi, Boris Johnson, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hillary Clinton, Bill Gates, Mike Pompeo, Anthony Fauci among others. In 2005, when Rahul was part of the original core team that launched Times Now, he was widely acclaimed for his coverage of the 2011 Mumbai terror attacks. His coverage secured him an invite to contribute to an anthology of hard-hitting investigative narratives about the event, 26/11 Mumbai Attacked, published by Roli Books.