Sadhika Sehgal

Timeline

1. 1996Born on 26 April in Delhi into a Punjabi Hindu family, according to the profile listings.Some profiles give 27 or 28 April instead.
2. 2000sStudies at The Frank Anthony Public School and then at Amity International School in Pushp Vihar.
3. 2010sCompletes a BCom Honours degree at Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, University of Delhi.
4. After graduationJoins Ernst and Young as an auditor, the corporate job she has described as useful training but not the work she wanted to keep.
5. 2019 to 2020Moves into writing and content professionally, and also works with Fork Media.
6. June 2021Joins MensXP as a writer.
7. October 2023Promoted to Assistant Editor, Relationships, at MensXP.
8. 2024 to 2026Hosts Men's Locker Room past 38 episodes and co-hosts The South Delhi Girls Podcast, taking the MensXP byline past 2,000 articles.

Who Sadhika Sehgal is

Sadhika Sehgal is a writer who interviews people for a living and a host who writes her own material. She works at MensXP, the Times Internet publication aimed at young Indian men, where she is Assistant Editor for relationships. The beat is relationships, gender, entertainment and the parts of Indian social life that people discuss in private and read about in public.^[1][2]

Her route into that job is the part of her story that gets repeated, because it is genuinely unusual. She studied commerce, worked as an auditor at Ernst and Young, and then left for media. Most people who write about relationships for a living arrive through a journalism degree or a content internship. She arrived from a balance sheet, and she has said the switch was deliberate rather than accidental.^[1]

What she actually does now is three jobs that look like one. She commissions and edits for a section. She writes features, more than 2,000 of them by the count on her profiles. And she hosts two podcasts, one for her employer and one outside it. The overlap between the three is why she is known as a name rather than as a byline.^[1]

She is also, in the way that Indian media people increasingly are, a creator in her own right. Her Instagram has about 178,000 followers and her bio describes the work as creating and documenting pop culture. That is a modest number next to an entertainment influencer's and a large one for a working editor, and it is the reason brands approach her directly rather than through the publication.^[1]

Delhi, a commerce degree and Ernst and Young

She was born and raised in Delhi and still lives there. Her schooling was at The Frank Anthony Public School and then Amity International School in Pushp Vihar, and her degree was a BCom Honours at Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, one of the University of Delhi's constituent colleges.^[1]

The family is Punjabi Hindu and middle class in the way that word is used in Delhi: a father who runs a business, a mother who keeps the house, and a brother. Profiles name them as Sandeep Sehgal, Vineeta Sehgal and Viren Sehgal. Her parents have been described as supportive of the subjects she covers, including the ones about sex and relationships that a Delhi household of their generation might reasonably have found awkward.^[1]

Her first job was as an auditor at Ernst and Young. Auditing is a disciplined, unglamorous training in checking other people's numbers, and she has described it as useful rather than satisfying. The transition out of it is the kind of decision that looks obvious in hindsight and is difficult at the time, because it means giving up a qualification track for an industry with no formal entry route.^[1]

She has also said she found her real interest in writing only after that first job, which is a detail worth keeping. It is not a story about a child who always wanted to be a writer. It is a story about someone who tried the sensible thing, did not like it, and changed course in her mid twenties.^[1]

MensXP, and what a relationships editor does

She joined MensXP as a writer in June 2021 and was promoted to Assistant Editor, Relationships, in October 2023. MensXP is part of Times Internet, the digital arm of the Times Group, which makes it a large, commercially run publication rather than a small independent one. That matters for how the job works: a relationships section on a site of that size is measured on traffic, and the writing has to be readable by a very large audience.^[2][3]

The subjects she covers run wider than the title suggests. She writes on Bollywood, sport, crime, social media and astrology, and the through line is culture rather than service journalism. A piece about a celebrity marriage and a piece about dating behaviour among young professionals are the same kind of story for her, because both are about the rules a society is arguing over.^[1]

The volume is the striking part. More than 2,000 articles in roughly six years is a rate of about one a day, sustained across a period in which she also started two podcasts and moved up an editorial ladder. Whatever else that says, it says the job is a craft practised daily rather than a platform for opinion.^[1]

Her beat has also given her a specific kind of authority. A relationships editor at a men's publication spends years reading and writing about what Indian men are actually asking, which is different from what they say in public, and her podcast material draws directly on that.^[1]

Men's Locker Room

Men's Locker Room is the MensXP podcast she hosts, built around conversations about relationships, men's issues and love lives. The format is direct: she asks the questions guests usually deflect, and the show has run for more than 38 episodes. It is available as audio on Spotify and as video on the MensXP YouTube channel.^[1]

The guest list is a mix of creators and specialists. TechBurner and Ravi Gupta have appeared, and so has Akshay Vashisht, who talks about the paranormal. That combination is deliberate rather than random: a men's interest podcast that only books other men's interest podcasters runs out of subjects quickly, and one that brings in a tech reviewer, a comedian and a ghost hunter never does.^[1]

The value of the format is that it gives a publication's audience a face and a voice. A byline is anonymous. A host is not, and a host can be booked, quoted and remembered. For MensXP the podcast is a brand asset; for Sehgal it is the thing that turned her from an editor into a public figure.^[1]

Interviews of this kind are also the hardest work in the format. A guest who has done forty promotional interviews will give the same answers, and getting past that requires preparation that does not show up in the episode. Profiles describe her pushing guests towards personal territory such as heartbreak, money trouble and mental health, which is where the material that travels comes from.^[1]

The South Delhi Girls Podcast, and a second tone

She co-hosts The South Delhi Girls Podcast with Radhika Dudeja, a show curated by iDiva. The format is lighter than her MensXP work: episodes move between comedy, dating, friendship and the small social details of living in Delhi, with guests from the creator and comedy world. Kullu, also known as Aaditya Kulshresth, has appeared, as have Nisman Parpia and Archika H Arora.^[1][4]

The title is doing specific work. South Delhi is shorthand in Indian internet culture for a particular kind of privilege, accent and social performance, and a podcast that claims the label is being knowingly self aware about it rather than defensive. That tone is why the show can discuss the male loneliness epidemic in one episode and a friendship breakup in the next without either sounding out of place.^[1]

Running two shows with different registers is a better demonstration of range than any single credit. Men's Locker Room is an interview format with a publication's authority behind it. The South Delhi Girls Podcast is a conversation between friends with a looser structure. A host who can do both is not dependent on one audience or one employer.^[1][4]

It also means she is, in a small way, in competition with herself. Two podcasts, both about relationships and social life, both featuring her voice, appeal to overlapping audiences. That the two have survived alongside each other suggests the tones are distinct enough that listeners do not treat them as substitutes.

The interviews she is known for

Her guest list spans several kinds of public figure. She has interviewed the news anchor Palki Sharma Upadhyay and the author Akshat Gupta, and on the creator side she has sat down with TechBurner and Ravi Gupta. Akshay Vashisht appeared on Men's Locker Room for an episode built around his paranormal experiences.^[1]

The range is wider than a relationships podcast would normally manage, and it is the reason the show does not read as a niche product. A news anchor talking about how she prepares for a broadcast and a paranormal investigator talking about what he says he has seen are both, in the end, interviews about how a person handles pressure and doubt.^[1]

What she does not do, in the material reviewed for this entry, is the confrontational interview. Her style is curious rather than adversarial, which suits a format built on getting people to say more than they planned. The most quoted moments from her shows tend to be admissions rather than arguments.^[1]

Her written work follows the same instinct. The features move between celebrity behaviour and social questions, and the reporting is usually built on public statements and interviews rather than on access journalism. It is the kind of writing a large digital publication runs because it is fast, readable and shareable.^[1][3]

What she earns

Her net worth is estimated at Rs 25 lakh to Rs 30 lakh, a figure that comes from profile sites rather than from any disclosure. For a salaried editor with a side career in hosting, that is a plausible order of magnitude and an entirely unsourced one.^[1]

Her income has three parts. The editorial salary at MensXP is the stable one. Brand collaborations, which come to her partly through her own following and partly through the publication, are the variable one. Podcast work adds a third, either as part of the job or as a separate arrangement, and no source says which.^[1]

She has not publicly confirmed any figure. This entry therefore describes the structure and leaves the amount where the sources leave it, which is unknown.^[1]

The larger point about her earning power is that it is not primarily a follower business. A creator with 178,000 followers does not earn from reach the way an entertainment page does. She earns because she can write, edit, host and interview, and those are skills that a publication, a brand and a conference will each pay for separately.

Personal life, and the details she has given

She is unmarried. In an interview she said she had been single for about a year, counting from October 2023, and described herself as thriving. She has not confirmed a relationship since.^[1]

The family details are unusually complete for an Indian media professional, which suggests she has chosen to share them: her father Sandeep Sehgal runs a business, her mother Vineeta Sehgal is a homemaker, and she has a brother named Viren Sehgal.^[1]

She is vegetarian, lists content writing and travel among her hobbies, and is a dog lover. Her labrador was called Oster Sehgal and has since died.^[1]

She has also spoken about being an introverted child who had to work at becoming comfortable on camera, which is worth recording because the job she now does is entirely about being comfortable on camera and in front of a crowd. The skill was acquired rather than innate, and she has been open about the fact that it took effort.^[1]

What has not been confirmed

Her date of birth is reported as 26 April 1996, but the profiles that carry it disagree on the day, listing 26, 27 or 28 April. The year is consistent and the day is not, and she has not published a birthday. Her age of 30 in 2026 depends on the year being right.^[1]

The institutions in her education are named consistently, from school through to Shaheed Bhagat Singh College, but no source reviewed for this entry confirms the graduation year or the exact nature of her time at Ernst and Young beyond the role of auditor. The Fork Media stint is mentioned in profiles without dates or a job title.^[1]

Her net worth of Rs 25 lakh to Rs 30 lakh is an estimate. No salary, brand fee or podcast payment has been disclosed, and the estimate cannot be traced to anything she has said.^[1]

The 2,000 article count is her profile's own figure and cannot be independently checked, since MensXP does not publish a running byline total. The episode count for Men's Locker Room, given as more than 38, is the same kind of number: accurate at the time it was written and out of date immediately.^[1]

Her height of 167 cm and her weight come from profile listings rather than from her, and the measurements attached to her in those listings are the kind of detail no working editor supplies about herself. They are repeated here as listings and nothing more.