About Dinesh Sharma
Dinesh Sharma has reported on science, technology and environment related issues for national and international media outlets since 1984. His articles have appeared in Times of India, Hindustan Times, Bangkok Post, The Lancet, Environmental Health Perspectives and online editions of New York Times and Business Week. He has also worked for television and online media. In 2007, he joined as Science Editor of Mail Today - a joint venture of the India Today Group and Daily Mail of UK.
He has covered several important scientific and environment related events including the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) held at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in June 1992. In June 2008, he became the first South Asian journalist to go to the Arctic to report on an ongoing international scientific expedition relating to climate change.
In 2005, Sharma was awarded a book writing fellowship by The New India Foundation, based in Bangalore. The outcome of this fellowship is his book entitled The Long Revolution: The Birth and Growth of India’s IT Industry, published by HarperCollins. The book has been described as “a pioneering effort, with no parallel” by Sam Pitroda, Chairman of India’s National Knowledge Commission.
Sharma is a post graduate in journalism and communication from Osmania University, Hyderabad. He has taught a course in development journalism at Ateneo de Manila University, Manila and authored a text book on the same subject. He has won several awards including the National Award for Outstanding Effort in Science and Technology Communication in the Print Medium for 2006 and ACE Reporter’s Award, instituted by the by the European School of Oncology in 2003.