Politics & Elections
Ground-level political reporting, election coverage, and grassroots governance stories across multiple states.
The Foundation
Journalism
Nearly 15 years on the ground across India. This is the craft that built the lens — and the entrepreneur.
The story
Before the companies, before the shows — there was the field.
Sarvesh Mishra spent nearly fifteen years in the television and digital media industry. Not as an anchor in a studio, but as a journalist on the ground — reporting, investigating, and listening across some of India's most complex and diverse landscapes.
His work took him across 11 Indian states — from the Himalayas to Kashmir, from Bihar to Maharashtra. He covered disasters, elections, hospitals, courts, villages, and the everyday realities that define how people actually live in India.
The most defining moment of his journalism career was the 2013 Uttarakhand disaster — one of the worst natural calamities in Indian history. Being on the ground during that event shaped his understanding of human resilience, vulnerability, and the gap between what people show and what they carry inside.
This on-ground experience gave Sarvesh something that no business school, no media training, and no podcast studio could replicate: a direct, lived understanding of people — how they think, how they suffer, how they survive, and how they find meaning.
Scope of work
~15
Years in media & journalism
11
Indian states covered on ground
2013
Uttarakhand disaster — on ground
Regions covered
A geography of lived experience — not desk research.
North India
Uttarakhand, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand
West & Central
Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh
North-West & Kashmir
Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab, Delhi NCR
Topics & beats
Disasters & Crisis
On-ground reporting during natural disasters and humanitarian crises, including the 2013 Uttarakhand floods.
Courts & Legal Affairs
Legal reporting, court proceedings, and stories at the intersection of law and human reality.
Health & Hospitals
Ground-level health reporting — the realities of India's healthcare system beyond statistics.
Social & Human Stories
Stories of people, communities, and the human condition as lived in towns and villages across India.
Development & Rural India
Reporting from rural and semi-urban India — infrastructure, livelihoods, and the gap between policy and ground reality.
How journalism shaped the entrepreneur
Journalism taught Sarvesh Mishra how to ask the right questions — not for spectacle, but for truth. It taught him to listen beyond words, to find the story beneath the surface, and to never assume he understood something he hadn't witnessed firsthand.
These are the same skills that now drive his work as a podcast host, as a media entrepreneur, and as the builder of brands that prioritize substance over noise:
- Deep listening — the foundation of every interview on The Sarvesh Mishra Show
- Ground-level truth — the principle behind every piece of content he produces
- Human complexity — the lens through which CureSoulLife approaches inner work
- Narrative discipline — the craft that makes The Urban Sannyasi stories resonate
The journalist didn't disappear when the entrepreneur emerged. The journalist became the entrepreneur's greatest asset.