Umesh Raghuvanshi

Umesh Raghuvanshi, a distinguished journalist, serves as senior associate editor at the Hindustan Times in Lucknow, India. He previously worked at The Pioneer in the same city. He has reported extensively on the twists and turns that changed India and its politics, including the Ram Janmabhoomi movement.

Raghuvanshi has an impressive academic background, having been a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley, USA, and a Metcalf Fellow at the Metcalf Institute of Marine and Environmental Reporting, University of Rhode Island, USA.

His accolades include the KC Kulish International Merit Award for excellence in journalism, received in New Delhi in 2017. He is also the winner of a competition organized by the United Nations Environment Programme DTIE OzonAction Programme in 2009 that assessed coverage of the interlinkages between ozone and climate change. He was awarded at Beijing, China, in 2010.

Raghuvanshi is a science graduate from DBS College, Dehradun, and holds an MA in Political Science from DAV (PG) College, Dehradun.

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