Starting out in 1999, the year of the “dotcom boom” (if anyone remembers that), my first editor told me I was wasted at the website where no one cares about the writing or correct grammar etc. He put me on to the India Today Group, where I started working with the beloved Teens Today as features writer and then joined India Today Travel Plus, becoming the Executive Editor before moving on to my independent career in November 2013.
I have always had an elementary interest in food and recipes, but more recently that transformed into a keener understanding of health and nutrition. A sample of my work for IMPAct4Nutrition and other writings on nutrition and health is featured here.
Travel + Wildlife + Environment
Before quitting full time work, I was Executive Editor of India Today Travel Plus, where I worked for 10 years from 2003 to 2013. As I travelled more and more for work, and on holidays, my writing started veering towards wildlife and nature. The focus on environment came as the inevitable result of wanting to contribute in any way I could to highlight the climate crises.
I love helping people shape narratives, as well as crunching 12000 words into 1200, or making sense of pages upon pages of data and jargon, so that people other than geeks can understand what you are trying to say.
Over the years I started taking up non-editorial projects, which include a wide variety of topics from music, to organic food and supplements, to rural livelihoods, photography, luxury and a few more things under the sun. Since I can write and edit, and have a basic interest in all things in life, there is no subject that is out of bounds.
Kalyani Prasher 