Subhra Priyadarsini is an award-winning journalist who currently serves as editor of Nature India, the Nature Publishing Group’s portal on Indian science. She covered politics and sports, fashion and films, crime and natural disasters for the Indian media for over a dozen years before returning to her interest in science. She has been a correspondent with major dailies The Times of India, The Indian Express, The Asian Age, The Telegraph, Press Trust of India and the environment publication Down To Earth. She received the BBC World Service Trust award for her coverage of the “Vanishing Islands of Sunderbans” in the Bay of Bengal in 2006. She also received letters of commendation from the Press Trust of India for her coverage of the Orissa super cyclone in 1999 and the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. She is a contributor to BBC Radio’s Hindi science program Vigyan aur Vikas (Science and Development), lectures on science communication and mentors young journalists.