About Ashley D’Mello
Ashley D’Mello, born in Mumbai, India and raised in Calcutta and New Delhi, is a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley doing research on Urban Development issues. He has been a journalist in Mumbai since 1982 and has worked for 25 years with the Times of India, one of the largest circulated English dailies on the globe. He has also written for the Indian Express and the Free Press Journal and worked with a national news agency, the United News of India. He studied English and History at St Stephen’s College, New Delhi, did his masters in history at the University of Mumbai and received a diploma in journalism from the Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai. During his career he has covered a wide variety of issues and subjects including politics, crime, civic issues, environment, infrastructure, business and communities. He has written for Time Magazine from India and received a fellowship from Wolfson College, Cambridge. One of the highlights of his career was covering Goa as a state for the Times of India for four years. During this period he wrote about politics in the state, environment problems, the challenges thrown up by tourism and social issues. He is a Visiting Scholar in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California Berkeley.