Mukul Sharma (private)
Mukul Sharma is a Professor of Environmental Studies at Ashoka University. He was the Professor of Development Communication at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication.
He has published several books and booklets in English and Hindi, the latest being, Dalit aur Prakriti: Jati aur Bhartiya Paryavarn Aaandolan (2020, in Hindi), Caste & Nature: Dalits and Indian Environmental Politics (2017), Green and Saffron: Hindu Nationalism and Indian Environmental Politics (2012), and Human Rights in a Globalised World: An Indian Diary (2010).
Mukul worked as a Special Correspondent in Navbharat Times, and received 12 national-international awards for his environmental, rural and human rights journalism. After that, he has been the Director of Amnesty International and Heinrich Boell Foundation-India, the South Asia Director of Climate Parliament and the Asia Campaign, Advocacy and Policy Director of ActionAid International.
His research interests lie in examining the relations between nature, culture, politics, policy and power. He focuses on the interweaving of ecology, religion, politics and media in the making of environmental politics in India and South Asia. He is presently working on ‘Dalit Ecologies: Caste and Environmental Justice’ and ‘Bihar, 1947-2020: Demography, Ecology and Politics’ (co-authored).