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Pratik Sinha Biography: Age, Career, Family and More

F4U Editorial Desk • Updated October 1, 2026 • 6 min read

Quick Info

Date of birth28 April

AgeNot Known

BirthplaceAhmedabad, Gujarat

ProfessionSoftware Engineer, Journalist, Co-founder of Alt News

NationalityIndian

FamilyFather - Mukul Sinha (deceased), Mother - Nirjhari Sinha

Pratik Sinha Biography

Pratik Sinha is an Indian software engineer-turned-journalist and co-founder of the fact-checking platform Alt News. Raised in Ahmedabad by parents active‑

Early life and background

Pratik Sinha was born on 28 April and grew up in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. He attended Prakash Higher Secondary School in Ahmedabad before studying engineering at Bangalore Institute of Technology, affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University. His upbringing was shaped by two activist parents: his father, Mukul Sinha, a lawyer and human rights campaigner, and his mother, Nirjhari Sinha, a scientist and activist who later became a director of the Pravda Media Foundation.

Sinha’s family background exposed him early to social and political issues. He spent part of his childhood visiting Kolkata and is of mixed Gujarati and Bengali heritage. He identifies as an atheist and is a non-vegetarian. Physical details listed in public profiles note he is about 175 cm (5'9") tall with black eyes and black hair.

Career

Sinha began his career in software engineering. Early roles included positions at Day Begins Engineering Innovations Pvt Ltd and a senior software engineering role at Ubiqtech Software Private Ltd in Bengaluru. He was on the technical staff at Arada Systems from 2004 to 2009, where he worked in roles ranging from software developer and kernel engineer to manager of enterprise support. Over time he held senior engineering roles at companies including Cloudleaf, Inc., and worked for software organisations in the US and Vietnam as a freelancer and technical coordinator.

After returning to Ahmedabad in 2013, Sinha continued software work as a senior embedded software engineer. His interest in journalism and public-interest reporting grew from documenting a rights-focused march organised by Jan Sangharsh Manch and related groups. That experience, combined with dissatisfaction with the purely technical work he had been doing, prompted a shift in direction.

In February 2017 Sinha co-founded Alt News with Mohammed Zubair. Started in Ahmedabad, the site was created to address the spread of false information by publishing verifiable fact checks. Zubair initially supported the site while remaining employed elsewhere and later joined full time; he eventually became a director of the Pravda Media Foundation, Alt News’s parent organisation. Sinha later helped establish a branch of Alt News in Kolkata.

Public profile

Sinha has been an outspoken critic of state governance in Gujarat and previously set up a Facebook page titled ‘Truth Of Gujarat’ in 2014, which he ran with his father to highlight alleged abuses and advocate for justice. He has also been involved in public rebuttals when misinformation targeted his colleagues or the organisation: for example, in 2022 he publicly disputed claims linking individual bank transactions to a colleague and clarified how Alt News receives and handles donations.

His work at Alt News and his public role have led to recognition. In 2018 he received the OSM Inspiration of the Year Award at the Outlook Social Media Awards. He and Mohammed Zubair were included in the Peace Research Institute Oslo’s nomination list for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize. In 2019 he co-authored the book India Misinformed: The True Story, written to help readers understand the drivers of fabricated news.

Personal and family

Sinha’s parents have long been active in civil rights work in Gujarat; they co-founded the Jan Sangharsh Manch to address labour and rights issues, including legal representation related to the 2002 Gujarat violence. His father, Mukul Sinha, who was a noted human rights lawyer and political activist, died on 12 May 2014. His mother, Nirjhari Sinha, is identified as a scientist and activist and has served as a director of the Pravda Media Foundation.

Sinha speaks Hindi and English and can speak Bengali, though he does not read or write the language. Public profiles list his religion as atheism. No spouse is listed in the available information.

Latest updates

Sinha has remained active in fact‑checking and media transparency work through Alt News. In 2022 he publicly addressed inaccurate media claims about bank transactions connected to one of his co-founders and continued to participate in public debate and reporting on misinformation in India.

Editorial Review and Sources

This F4U profile is written from publicly available career and profile information, then reviewed for clarity before publication. If you spot an outdated detail about Pratik Sinha, send the page URL and a reliable correction source to f4udotin@gmail.com.

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Recent Work

Co-founder, Alt News

Launched a fact-checking website in February 2017 to combat the spread of false news; later helped establish a Kolkata branch.

2017
Author, India Misinformed: The True Story

Co-authored a book in 2019 that examines how fabricated news spreads and who benefits from it.

2019
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Career Highlights

  1. Co-founder of Alt News (2017)
  2. OSM Inspiration of the Year Award at the Outlook Social Media Awards (2018)
  3. Included on the Peace Research Institute Oslo’s nomination list for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize
  4. Co-author of India Misinformed: The True Story (2019)
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Frequently Asked Questions

When was Pratik Sinha born?

28 April

What is Pratik Sinha known for?

Software Engineer, Journalist, Co-founder of Alt News