Namrata Acharya

Namrata Acharya

Namrata Acharya is an independent journalist based in Kolkata, India. Previously she worked as an assistant editor with Business Standard newspaper. She writes on issues related to economy, finance, public policy and the environment. In 2019, her reporting from the deltaic region of Sundarbans won the C R Irani Award for Environment Reporting (instituted by one of the oldest newspapers in India, The Statesman), and was also shortlisted for the Kurt Schork Memorial Fund award. She was also a recipient of the World Press Institute fellowship, USA in 2011 and the Media Ambassador India-Germany fellowship by the Robert Bosch Foundation in 2017.  You can find her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/NamrataTWEET