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Santanu Saikia
Santanu Saikia is a Delhi-based investigative journalist and data-publisher who has spent more than four decades chronicling — and often scooping — India’s energy sector. He began his career in the early 1980s as a reporter with Economic Times, reporting from the trading floor of the old Delhi Stock Exchange. He soon built a reputation for exclusives across the economy, from finance and stock markets to agriculture and energy. He currently leads a team of reporters, analysts, scouts, and editors.
He holds a Master's degree in Economics from the Delhi School of Economics.
Entrepreneurial Journey
In 2000, he pivoted from newsroom roles—his last being Business Editor of Financial Express—to entrepreneurship, founding a cluster of pay-walled industry portals that now serve most of India’s energy sector stakeholders:
- IndianPetroPlus.com – Deep-dive news and strategy on oil & gas
- EnergyLineIndia.com – Project intelligence across generation, T&D and renewables
- IndianFertilizer.com / IndianPetrochem.com / IPGProjects.com – Specialised feeds for fertilizer, petrochemical and project-tracking verticals
- IPGProjects.com – A real-time project monitoring website offering business development insights for power, fertilizer, oil & gas, and petrochemical sectors
He serves as CEO & Editor-in-Chief of the group, overseeing a 25-person desk that generates over 100 proprietary stories and data sets every business day.
Areas of Expertise
- Regulatory and contractual analysis of energy sector policy and corporate developments
- Competitive-intelligence reading of tenders, EIAs, and forest-clearance filings
- Price-trend analytics for crude oil, LNG, LPG, petrochemicals, and chemicals
- Long-form investigative reporting on policy, arbitration, and corporate strategy
Education & Affiliations
- M.A. in Economics, Delhi School of Economics
- Life member, Press Club of India
- Contributor/interviewee for several industry forums
Notable Milestones
| Year | Milestone |
|---|---|
| 1998–2004 | Broke a series of ministry-policy exclusives later cited in Parliamentary questions |
| 2000 | Launched IndianPetro.com – among the first subscription news portals in the energy space |
| 2013 | Added power-sector vertical EnergyLineIndia and other portals to fill critical market gaps |
| 2020–2025 | Led transition to AI-assisted document parsing and headline generation, quadrupling output |
Freedom of Press
Santanu Saikia has had several brushes with authorities due to his investigative writing. He was detained twice—once under a Congress-led regime and later under the BJP alliance—but released thereafter. He is frequently cited as an example of a journalist targeted for fearless reportage.