Urvashi Sarkar is an independent journalist based in Mumbai. She writes on international affairs, power and governance, nuclear energy, and climate change. She has won the 2023 SCARF media mental health awards (First Prize) 2019 ICRC-PII award for humanitarian reporting on climate change (First Prize) and the Laadli Media Award for gender sensitivity in reporting (2017). She has held fellowships with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (South Asia Editorial Fellow, 2021\u20132022), the UN Reham Al-Farra Memorial Journalism Programme (2018), and the People’s Archive of Rural India (2016), and has previously worked with The Hindu and The Indian Express.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Urvashi\u2019s work features in a range of international and Indian publications including Al Jazeera, BBC, France 24, The Middle East Eye, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Telegraph, The Caravan, Scroll, The Wire and several other publications. She has reported from Palestine, Bangladesh, and the United States. She is a visiting faculty for journalism and public policy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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