Ravi Somaiya

Ravi Somaiya is the founder and editor of Bungalow. He was a staff writer at Gawker, a crime reporter, international correspondent, breaking news writer and media correspondent for The New York Times, and produced and presented documentaries for Vice on HBO. He is the author of a book about the 1961 death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld.

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SERIES 05

Jul 27, 2026

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7 min read

How to walk in Manhattan

And the unreported change that might alter it forever

Ravi Somaiya

SERIES 05

Jul 8, 2026

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2 min read

Measuring the Met Gala: Part 2

Do men lie more about their heights?

Ravi Somaiya

SERIES 05

Jul 2, 2026

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5 min read

Measuring the Met Gala

Spoiler: celebrities are shorter than you’d think

Ravi Somaiya

SERIES 05

Jun 18, 2026

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6 min read

Does Trump really have short fingers?

A forensic analysis

Ravi Somaiya

SERIES 05

Jun 17, 2026

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2 min read

SERIES 05: Measuring things

The joyous rebellion of measuring things people don’t want measured

Ravi Somaiya

May 7, 2026

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1 min read

We turned algae into a magazine

A new print thing that is not like other print things

Ravi Somaiya

Apr 6, 2026

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3 min read

Going Gangnam style

What Psy taught us about publishing

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SERIES 04

Mar 29, 2026

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7 min read

The experiment

An MRI machine. An exorcism. A curse.

Ravi Somaiya

Mar 22, 2026

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8 min read

Inside the demonic possession

'The pupils of her eyes become vertical. She moves like an animal'

Ravi Somaiya

SERIES 04

Mar 22, 2026

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8 min read

Inside the demonic possession

'The pupils of her eyes become vertical. She moves like an animal'

Ravi Somaiya

SERIES 04

Mar 15, 2026

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9 min read

A murder ignored

A shooting in Mexico City and the birth of a curse

Ravi Somaiya

SERIES 04

Mar 8, 2026

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6 min read

Can you exorcise a nation?

Before the experiment, before the curse, there was the ceremony

Ravi Somaiya

SERIES 04

Feb 25, 2026

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8 min read

The rise of the demons

Fearful societies mean demonic possession is back

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SERIES 03

Jan 12, 2026

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6 min read

The purpose of a system is what it does

Manchester United, McKinsey, Britain’s NHS and the corporate culture that ate the world

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SERIES 02

Dec 23, 2025

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1 min read

The bench — audio version

For journeys, and other escapes

Ravi Somaiya

SERIES 02

Dec 23, 2025

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5 min read

Dive deeper. Be more interesting.

Ravi Somaiya

Ravi Somaiya

How to walk in Manhattan

Measuring the Met Gala: Part 2

Measuring the Met Gala

Does Trump really have short fingers?

SERIES 05: Measuring things

We turned algae into a magazine

Going Gangnam style

The experiment

Inside the demonic possession

Inside the demonic possession

A murder ignored

Can you exorcise a nation?

The rise of the demons

The purpose of a system is what it does

The bench — audio version

The bench — behind the story

‘It's just a bomb’

The bench

Sad boys

The prophet of Y2K

The violent truth of penguin romance

The Rapture’s Choice

Welcome to Bungalow

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