Dilip D’Souza

Dilip D’Souza is a Mumbai-based writer and journalist who writes on social and political causes. His columns have appeared in The Sunday Observer, Rediff.com, Outlook, Mid-Day, The Hindustan Times, The Caravan and other publications. He did a B.E. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from BITS Pilani and an M.S. in Computer Science from Brown University. After working in the U.S. as a software engineer, he returned to India to write full-time. He has authored books on the denotified tribes of India, the Narmada Dam Project, the cricketer Sachin Tendulkar, the hockey player Dhyan Chand, and the public health speacialist and activist Binayak Sen. D’Souza has won several awards for his writing, including The Daily Beast Award for South Asian commentary, the Statesman Rural Reporting Award, the Times of India/Red Cross Prize, the Outlook/Picador Nonfiction Prize, and the Sanctuary Magazine Prize.