Dinesh C. Sharma

Dinesh C. Sharma is an award-winning journalist and author based in Delhi. In a career spanning close to four decades, he has written extensively on science and technology, climate change, health, environment and innovation for Indian and gobal media, including The Lancet and Wired. He was previously science editor at Mail Today and managing editor at India Science Wire. In 2008, he travelled to the Arctic and joined an international scientific expedition there to report on climate change.

He is the author of the national bestseller Indian Innovation, Not Jugaad. His book The Outsourcer: The Story of India's IT Revolution was awarded the Computer History Museum Book Prize in 2016. His other recent book is Beyond Biryani: The Making of a Globalised Hyderabad.

Sharma has been a Jawaharlal Nehru Fellow and also visiting faculty at the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi and at Ateneo de Manila University, Manila. He tweets on X as @dineshcsharma