About Subhra Priyadarshini

Subhra Priyadarshini is an award winning science journalist and currently the Chief Editor of Nature Portfolio’s Global Supported Projects and of Nature India. She has been keenly following the evolving science, research and innovation climate in Asia through the last couple of decades. In its 14th year of operation now, Nature India has become the single largest platform of science news in India.

Subhra covered science alongside politics and sports, fashion and films, crime, and natural disasters in the mainstream Indian media for over a dozen years. She chose to focus on her first love – science – launching Nature India in 2007. Subhra 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 in 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.