I am a New York City-based editor, writer, and producer, specializing in narrative features, op-eds, essays, podcasts, and documentary. I have worked as an editor for The New York Times Opinion page, The Atlantic, Business Insider, Foreign Policy, and Bloomberg. My writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Texas Monthly, and elsewhere.

Stories I edited have been recognized by the New York Press Club, the Association of LGBTQ Journalists, the Deadline Club, and the American Society of Magazine Editors, and have been adapted into acclaimed documentaries. I also served as a co-producer and writer for Kabul Falling, a Peabody-nominated eight-part narrative podcast chronicling the fallout of the end of the U.S. war in Afghanistan, and as a story editor for The Deal with Alex Rodriguez and Jason Kelly. 

I am currently taking freelance and contract work. You can reach me at: sid.mahanta@gmail.com, sid.mahanta@protonmail.com, or on Twitter @sidhubaba.