Background
Wade was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in August 1975, but settled with her family in New Delhi.
Wade was born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in August 1975, but settled with her family in New Delhi.
She studied at Carmel Convent in Delhi"s Diplomatic Enclave before studying at Hindu College, University of Delhi for a Bachelor (Honours) degree in Political Science.
She joined SI India in November 2010, to direct the revamp of the monthly magazine beginning with its January 2011 issue. Her articles largely focus on cricket. She is the youngest national editor of a major news outlet.
She worked briefly with the Asian Age in 1996, before moving to The Pioneer, where she covered the environment, gender and development beats, reporting on Earth Summit II from the United Nations in New York in 1997.
From mid-1996 to 1998, she wrote one of India"s first weekly web columns in a mainline daily, called "Surfer"s Diary". Wade also wrote occasionally for the sports section, but became a full-time sports journalist only when she moved first to the Asian Age (mid-1998-1999) and then the Indian Express (1999 to early 2001).
In April 2001, she moved to the Hindustan Times to set up the Sunday team"s section on sport. Subsequently, as part of the HT sports desk, she was an investigative sports reporter, and then as a writer, while covering cricket in eight countries.
Foreign forty-five days in Karachi, Lahore, Multan, Rawalpindi-Islamabad and Peshawar during India"s tour of Pakistan in 2004 saw her become a contributing author to a book on that tour.
Her writing from this tour is also part of the course-work for Delhi University"s first-year "Fluency in English" curriculum.