With 28 years as a journalist, Darshan Desai has worked in various capacities in The Indian Express , Outllook and The Hindu in Gujarat, as resident editor for The Indian Express in Lucknow and associate editor, Tehelka and the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) in Delhi. He contributes to the thewire.in, scroll.in, firstpost.com, catchnews.com, The Economic and Political Weekly , The Caravan , Down To Earth and IANS from Gujarat.