Ankur Paliwal

Ankur Paliwal is an independent journalist and the founder and managing editor of ‘queerbeat’, a new collaborative journalism venture focused on accurately covering LGBTQIA+ communities in India. In his thirteen year journalism career, Paliwal has tried to shine light on the stories of underreported people and places. He has written about neglected crops and diseases, queer and indigenous communities, and caste and climate change, from South Asia and Sub Saharan Africa for various publications including Guardian, Nature, Scientific American and FiftyTwo. Paliwal has a master’s degree in Science Journalism from Columbia University in New York.