Journalist Dinesh Sharma awarded Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship for 2019

Senior journalist Dinesh C. Sharma, Managing Editor, India Science Wire, has been awarded the Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowship for the year 2019, the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund announced on the eve of 130th birth anniversary of India’s first prime minister on Wednesday.

Dinesh Sharma will work on the project “Hyderabad: The Making of a Knowledge City through Royal Firmans, Institution Building and Globalisation” during the term of fellowship.

Sharma is an award-winning journalist with over 33 years of experience of reporting on science and technology, health and environment for various national and international media platforms. In 2008, he became the first Asian journalist to go to the Arctic to report on an international scientific expedition relating to climate change.

With this, the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Fund has so far awarded 158 Jawaharlal Nehru Fellowships.