I’m Atikh Rashid, a media person based in Dublin, Ireland.

This is my personal website.

For most of my professional career, I have worked as a journalist in Pune, India. I was a news correspondent with The Indian Express and indianexpress.com between 2011 and 2024. In recent years, I had the additional responsibility of print-digital synergy for the Pune bureau.

I come from Parbhani district in Marathwada region of Maharashtra. Most of my schooling took place back in Beed/Parbhani after which I moved to Pune for higher-education and finished an undergraduate degree in Agricultural Sciences from College of Agriculture, Pune. While studying in Pune, I discovered my inclination towards journalism and audio-visual media and, after finishing the undergrad course, I enrolled myself into a journalism programme in New Delhi.

I have a morbid interest for covering politics,  media functioning, the role of religion in society, and democratic working of nations.

I am a cinephile and often write about independent cinema, film history and film heritage conservation.

Two years ago, I moved to Europe to undertake an Erasmus Mundus Joint Master programme in audio-visual heritage and history. I stayed for a year in Brussels and then for a semester each in Dublin and Lisbon during the programme.

Here, I publish longer or slightly altered versions of some of the stories that are published in the newspaper or the website. You may also find a few opinion pieces, occasionally.