The Team

Abhay Verma

Abhay Verma

Editor and Publisher of India’s youngest automotive publication, Abhay has been in the industry for over 15 years and has represented the country’s top automotive publications in the past. He has also been a television host and loves talking to the camera. Abhay is also one of the only Editors in the country (and Indians!) to have driven a Formula 1 car. Known for his friendly, lucid style of writing, he likes to provoke thought through his articles and also tries to make readers smile.   

Sangram Pawar

Sangram Pawar

The Founder and CEO of Supercharged Publishing LLP, Sangram Pawar is a marketing guru with over two decades of expertise in marketing strategy, go-to-market executions, and general management. The media sales specialist is an avid traveller, an automobile enthusiast and a big-time foodie.

Akshay Jadhav

Akshay Jadhav

Co-founder and CCO of Supercharged Publishing LLP, Akshay Jadhav is an avid motorcyclist and an overlander. His zest for traveling and cinematography is what keeps him on his toes. Being in this industry for about a decade, Akshay’s motive is to take the TURBOCHARGED magazine to a new pinnacle of automotive visuals.

Benjamin Gracias

Benjamin Gracias

An engineer by profession, but a hardcore motorcyclist by passion, Ben has been a road tester for over four years and an automotive journalist for seven years! Ben looks at motorcycles from a perspective the normal human doesn’t and he is one of the best storytellers we’ve come across. Oh also, Ben is one of the biggest animal lovers we know!

Halley Prabhakar

Halley Prabhakar

An avid foodie and a hardcore automotive enthusiast, Halley's journey started back in 2008 as an intern at one of the well-renowned publications where he graduated to becoming a Road Test Editor. Halley also competed and won one of the categories at the 2015 Desert Storm Rally! Currently, he is a contributing editor at TURBOCHARGED and a consultant to a few automotive brands as well!

Hem Chandra Suyal

Hem Chandra Suyal

Hem Chandra has over a decade and a half years of experience in the sales and marketing field. He has worked in the fields of media tech, digital transformation and the service industry. He is a gadget connoisseur and spends his spare time reading about the latest technology. 

Jatin Joshi

Jatin Joshi

Jatin has over one-and-a-half decades of experience in the industry as a Graphic Designer, and he is an avid biker! Jatin joins TURBOCHARGED as the Creative and Operations Head.

Gaurav Davare

Gaurav Davare

A sucker for all things on four wheels and racing. Gaurav’s journey started from the time of Michael Schumacher’s dominant spell in the scarlet Ferrari with even a couple of years racing in national karting championships. He’s also worked with a racing company as well as a well-known publication for three years. Gaurav joins TURBOCHARGED as a correspondent for all things four wheels and motorsports.

Sayantan De

Sayantan De

Hailing from Kolkata, Sayantan is obsessed with obscure vehicles and associated trivia. He loves two-wheelers and four-wheelers equally, with a little bit of lean towards the two. Rallying is his choice of Motorsport having navigated and marshaled at local rallies. He is an off-roading enthusiast as well, and he loves BBQs and desserts. He relaxes by listening to Scandinavian Heavy Metal!

Ritesh Patil

Ritesh Patil

A civil engineer by profession, Ritesh realised halfway through college that he is more fond of the cars and bikes that go on the road than what it takes to make that road. This led the young lad to the world of Automotive Journalism and TURBOCHARGED! He takes pride in caring for his family's 2 lakh plus kilometre-run Hyundai Accent.

Saneet Dsilva

Saneet Dsilva

Saneet's enthusiasm for cars and coffee appears to be on par with his affection for food and drinks. One may say that his obsession with cars dates back to kindergarten. Despite a bumpy ride that included dropping out of Engineering and being turned down by the Navy, he made it through business school and landed an internship as a correspondent and social media guru at TURBOCHARGED.

Vaibhav Dhanawade

Vaibhav Dhanawade

A filmmaker by profession, Vaibhav’s journey started back in 2013 because of his passion for photography. Having been brought up around motorcycles since an early age, automotive photography came naturally to him. His aim is to create a different look and feel on every shoot. He loves touring on his motorcycle a lot and his love for hip-hop music and the associated culture knows no bounds.

Rohan Murudi

Rohan Murudi

Rohan is a visual storyteller who creates magic out of thin air with his wizardry on the editing table and has joined team TURBOCHARGED as a video editor. He loves to cook, is an avid binge-watcher of off-beat movies and is always down for anything related to dark comedies.