Hridayesh Joshi

Broadcast Journalist, NDTV
April 4, 2017 - 5:45pm
“The Himalayan Tsunami & Road Ahead”
LUCE Hall, Room 203 See map
34 Hillhouse Ave.

About the Speaker 

Hridayesh Joshi has been working as a broadcast journalist for last almost two decades. At present, he is working with New Delhi Television (NDTV)–one of India’s largest and most viewed news network–as a Senior Editor. Hridayesh has received the prestigious Ramnath Goenka Award for his reporting from war zones of central India. He is among the rare journalist who has won the RN Goenka award twice, the first time in 2009 for his reporting from China. Hridayesh has recently authored a few books: ‘Rage of the River – The Untold Story of the Kedarnath Disaster’ (published by Penguin India in 2016) and ‘Lal Lakeer’ (The Red Line) by Harper Collins India. “Rage of the River” is particularly worth mentioning because in the book Hridayesh has recorded blow-by-blow account of the disaster, which killed as many as 10,000 people and still many missing. Hridayesh is interested in investigating the effects of climate change and environmental onslaughts on Himalayan Ecology.