Dr John Brittas was active in student politics during his college days. After graduaton he made his foray into journalism and soon he was deputed to New Delhi. He worked from Delhi as a print journalist and also as an electronic media person and had the opportunity to cover important events that shaped the Indian society and polity. The demolition of Babri Masjid, Gujarat riots, happenings in Pakistan and Nepal election are amongst the important events that he witnessed and reported about.

He was the first Indian journalist to be in Baghdad to cover the US-Iraq conflict which eventually led to the dethronement of Sadam Hussain. The news snippets disseminated from Iraq titled “Baghdad Diary” was picked up by various media organisations. He spent about a fortnight in Pakistan understanding the socio-political verticals of that nation. John Brittas had the opportunity to be the part of Prime Minister’s media team which visited US, Russia, Germany, Switzerland, etc.