The Ken is a pan-Indian, digital, subscription-driven publication headquartered out of Bangalore, India. We publish analytical, deeply reported business stories written by our experienced team of journalists. To learn more about our work, you can visit our About Us page.

The Ken currently has over 45,000 premium subscribers. Our community consists of CXOs, Founders, Product Managers, Senior Managers in Sales and marketing, Market Researchers, Academics and B-School students. They often get into long conversations with our team in the comments section under the stories that are exclusively available for our subscriber community.

You can learn about our mission, code-of-conduct, editorial policy and also meet our team here.

Yes you can. Sign up for a free 30-day trial, where we unlock one premium story handpicked from our archives everyday for 30 days. These stories give you a complete taste of The Ken’s premium subscription experience.

Yes, we do accept guest contributions on our platform. If you have a strong pitch for us, you can write to [email protected] with your story idea and our team will work with you to publish the story if it meets our criteria.

No, that is not possible. All our journalism can only be accessed on our own channels.

Any person residing in India can register a complaint related to the website’s content within a suitable period of the publication of the content. Please fill out all the details of the Grievance Redressal form. Any section left blank or anonymous or fake submissions will not be accepted.

Yes, you can upgrade to a higher plan while your current subscription is still active. Our system will automatically give you a discount against the remainder of your current subscription.

You will get a discount equivalent to the time remaining in your current subscription.

Yes, we do. You will have to upload a valid student ID card during checkout to avail a 50% student discount on our Basic Subscription. You can purchase a student subscription here.

Yes, we do have corporate subscriptions, corporate gift subscriptions and campus plans for larger groups that wish to read The Ken together.

We do not allow downloading and distribution of our stories. The Ken is a digital subscription-based product and only those with an active subscription will have access to the stories either on our apps or the website.

Subscribers to our Basic plan can login and use The Ken on a maximum of two devices simultaneously. Each account on our Premium and Premium Duo plans can use a maximum of three devices simultaneously.

We do not offer any cancellations or refunds. If you are facing any issues with the subscription, you can write to us at [email protected]. For any other reason, if you are unable to use the subscription, you can always transfer it to any of your friends or colleagues.

While we do not allow cancelling your current subscription, you can cancel auto-renewal on your subscription for the next cycle by going to The Ken website. Under the My Account tab, click on ‘Subscription.’ Here, you’ll find an option to disable auto-renewal. If this is set to OFF, your subscription will not auto-renew.

You can also unsubscribe from all our emails by going to the 'My Account' tab. Scroll down to find ‘Emails and notifications.’ Switch the toggle OFF to stop receiving all emails from The Ken. To switch off the delivery of any newsletter, please visit http://the-ken.com/newsletters/ and disable the toggle.

Please visit this link https://the-ken.com/newsletters/ and check if the delivery of newsletters to your account is enabled? You'll find toggle switches there for each newsletter, please check if they are all set to ON.

If you are still facing the issue, please write to us at [email protected].

If you have subscribed to the Basic plan, you will be able to access only our daily long-form stories, subscriber newsletters, free podcasts, and the archives for the last two years. However, you won’t get our premium newsletters, premium podcasts, visual stories, and the iPad app. Only Premium subscribers get access to all of The Ken’s products and features.

If you’re still facing an issue accessing products listed in your subscription plan, please write to us at [email protected].

If you’ve signed up for The Ken, you will automatically get access to our 30-day Free Trial, where we unlock one handpicked paywalled story for you each day. However, you will not be able to access other premium stories that are behind a paywall.

The Ken is a digital premium subscription product like Netflix or Spotify. You will only have access to our stories for as long as your subscription is active.

Your 30-day gift subscription gives you access to paywalled stories that are new and also those published in the last 30 days. Please make sure that you have activated your gift from our activation email. Log in with the email address that you have received the gift on and you should be able to read the stories.

All campus subscriptions are managed by your respective college libraries. Please reach out to them for any access related information.

If you’re purchasing from India, we accept all major credit and debit cards except Diners Card, netbanking and UPI. If you’re an international subscriber, we accept only Mastercard and Visa cards.

If you’ve paid for your subscription using a credit card or using a debit card from ICICI Bank, Citibank, Standard Chartered, Kotak Bank or Canara Bank, your subscription is on automatic renewal. You can also find out if you’re on auto-renewal by heading to the My Account section.

You can cancel it from the My Account section under the Subscription tab.

Go to the 'My Account' tab, and scroll down to find a header called 'Subscription'. Here, you'll find an option to generate an invoice and send it to yourself. It’ll directly land in your registered email address.

Yes, we have gifting options. You can view the plans here. We also send an email on your behalf with a personalised message along with the gift subscription.

As a premium subscriber, you get three 30-day subscriptions that you can send as gifts to anyone you’d like at no extra cost to you. You can do this from the My Account section.

If you are on a Basic plan, you will get five story gift credits added to your account every month. You can use each gift credit to share one story with anyone you like. These credits, if unused, will lapse at the end of every month and be replenished on the first day of the next month.

If you are on a Premium plan, you will get 10 story gift credits added to your account every month, which means you can share 10 stories with anyone you’d like. These credits, if unused, will lapse at the end of every month and be replenished on the first day of the next month.

You can change your email address in the My Account section. Please also read the question below on how you can ensure that our emails always land correctly in your inbox.

If you have lost access to your account and are not able to use the forgot password option, please write to [email protected] from your registered email address. We can set a temporary password for you.
If you would just like to change your password, you can do so from the My Account section.

Our subscriptions are meant for individuals and therefore you can have only one email address linked to it. If you would like to read The Ken with your team, you can check out our corporate subscription plans

We’re sorry! You can update your name in the My Account section.

Yes, you can add a profile picture which will be visible to other subscribers when you leave a comment under a story.

We send a verification email when you signup for The Ken.

Here are some things you can do to always ensure that our emails are landing in your primary inbox:
1. For both Gmail and Outlook, you can right-click on the email and select ‘Move to’ and then click on primary/focused inbox. You will see a pop-up message where you will have to confirm this action.

2. You can also drag and drop the email from your promotions tab to your primary inbox. When you do this, make sure you click ‘yes’ on the confirmation pop-up.

3. You can also add us to your address book. Just open any one of our emails, click on the name (The Ken) and you will see an option to ‘Add to contacts’.

Write to us at [email protected] and we’ll help you out!

Yes, you can purchase our Premium subscription plan on The Ken’s app. We also offer an exclusive monthly subscription plan for app users. Do check it out if you haven’t already.

The app is the best way to read The Ken. Not only will you find all of our products—stories, narratives, newsletters—in one place, you’ll discover our stories that you’ve missed but will love. But that’s not it. There’s much more:

1. Our home screen offers you recommendations based on editorial insight, your past reads, and the behaviour of The Ken’s community.

2. You can personalise your reading experience in ways you can’t on the website. With dark mode, custom font sizes and reader settings

3. With push notifications, you’ll never miss a story from us

4. You can save stories and download them for reading later. During a commute, inflight, or wherever you go.

Our Basic subscribers get one app session on their mobile device in addition to one webpage session. Our Premium and Premium Duo subscribers will get access to The Ken app on their iPad or Tablet in addition to their mobile device.

In case you’d like multiple users in a company to access The Ken, you can pick our corporate plan for any number of users. Each user will have access to the app individually.

Yes, you can save stories and download them to your app by clicking the bookmark icon.

Yes, our app is compatible with both Android tablets and iPad.

Yes, you can access The Ken’s free podcasts.

However, if you wish to gain access to our Premium subscriber-only podcasts, you will have to get our Premium plan. Alternatively, you can also listen to our Premium podcasts on Apple Podcasts with a standalone subscription.

You can listen to them on The Ken mobile app, Spotify, Apple Podcasts or anywhere else you like your podcasts.

Yes, The Ken’s podcasts can be access on our app. Just navigate to ‘Podcasts’ on the bottom navigation bar in the app.