Urvashi Sarkar is an independent journalist based in Mumbai. A journalist for the last 15 years, she writes on international affairs, nuclear power, 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 also been a fellow with Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (South Asia editorial fellow, 2021-2022), the UN Reham-al-Farra Memorial Journalism Programme (2018), and the People’s Archive of Rural India (2016). She has worked with The Hindu and The Indian Express. Urvashi’s work features in a range of international and Indian publications including the BBC, Al Jazeera, The Middle East Eye, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Telegraph, The Caravan, Scroll, The Wire, and many others.  She is currently working on her first book.