About the Editors
Subhra Priyadarshini, Chief Editor
Subhra Priyadarshini is a science journalist of over 25 years. She launched Nature India in 2008 after a decade-long stint in mainstream Indian media. Subhra has a bachelor’s degree in zoology from the Odisha University of Agriculture Technology, and majored in Personnel Management and Industrial Relations from Utkal University, Bhubaneswar, India. She is also a post graduate from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication and studied print journalism at the University of Westminster, London. Subhra has worked as a journalist with major Indian dailies The Times of India, The Indian Express, The Asian Age, The Telegraph, India’s premier news agency Press Trust of India and Down To Earth magazine. She worked briefly for the Observer, London.
Subhra has been a British Chevening scholar, a Robert Bosch fellow, an IREX-UNESCO fellow and a Kavli Prize Media Scholarship awardee. Subhra received the BBC World Service Trust award for her coverage of the ‘Vanishing Islands of Sunderbans’ in the Bay of Bengal and the PANOS South Asia Media Excellence Award for her incisive coverage of climate change issues. She won acclaim in India for her coverage of the Orissa super cyclone in 1999 and the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004.
Subhra is a Board Director of the World Conference of Science Journalists and the founding President of the Science Journalists Association of India. She is a member of many national and international committees on science communication, science policy, environment and health. Through Nature India’s many workshops and outreach activities, Subhra trains scientists, healthcare professionals and journalists in science and health communication.
Sahana Ghosh, Associate Editor
Sahana is an award-winning Indian journalist with an eye on science and the environment. At Nature India, she contributes to editorial strategy and function.
She is a co-founder and secretary of the Science Journalists Association of India. She co-leads Bay Bridges, a science communication project on the Bay of Bengal delta. She is a member of the inaugural Oxford Climate Journalism Network and, in 2021, was named one of 16 Women Restoring the Earth by the Global Landscapes Forum.