Vaishali Dinakaran
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Vaishali Dinakaran (born 11 October 1987) is an Indian motor sport journalist[1] and writer. She graduated from a sub-editor to a motor sports editor in an Indian automotive publication, Overdrive. Now based in Berlin, Germany she continues to write on motor sports but uses a new medium. She is currently doing video news for Deutsche Welle. She is one of the few motor sports journalists who drove a Formula 1 car.[2][3]
Vaishali Dinakaran was born on 11 October 1987 in Bangalore to Thinakaran and Poornima Thinakaran. She's spent her early childhood in Bengaluru along with her sister Shoruba. After finishing her schooling in Sishu Griha, she studied communicative English at Mount Carmel College in Bengaluru. She finished her Bachelor of Arts in Media and Mass Communication in 2008. Before that in 2006, she did a couple of months internship with Overdrive magazine.[4] She joined as a Copy Editor at Autocar India in June 2008.