He is currently a Commissioned Author at TheSquirrels.in[1] where he is in charge of generating, writing and editing India-focussed hard news pertaining to policy, finance, technology, world affairs and politics for the website that was launched in 2024.
After graduation, Chakravorty moved to Kolkata for a few years, where he studied journalism at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, and topped the post-graduate diploma course at the institution.
Chakravorty admits being torn between the options of pursuing higher studies leading to a career in academics and choosing journalism as his calling.
Chakravorty joined Hindustan Times in January 2001 as film critic and feature journalist for a fruitful association of over six years that he ended in July 2007 to join Mail Today, the newspaper launched by the prestigious India Today Group in association with The Daily Mail, UK the same year.
As a film critic, Chakravorty cites the iconic Roger Ebert of Chicago Sun-Times as his idol and a major influence.
He counts Charles Chaplin, Satyajit Ray, Woody Allen, Steven Spielberg, Krzysztof Kieslowski and the Coen Brothers among favourite filmmakers, besides world cinema by contemporary masters including Lars von Trier, Michael Haneke, Pedro Almodovar, Peter Greenaway and Gaspar Noé.
Chakravorty is a supporter of the new-age crossover cinema movement in India, too, and looks forward to the advent of new-generation Indian filmmakers experimenting with the genre.