Sharmila Vaidyanathan
- Freelance WriterSharmila Vaidyanathan is a freelance writer based in Bangalore, India. She explores food, agriculture and environmental conservation through her work, which has appeared in Nature inFocus, Mongabay India, Scroll, Goya, Whetstone South Asia and Hakai Magazine among others. She is also a member of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network and a recipient of the Earth Journalism Network Biodiversity Grant and the Rukhmabai Fellowship. She presented a paper on the culinary and cultural implications of asafoetida at the 2020 Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery, later published in the proceedings. She posts as @yellowturmeric on Twitter and @theyellowturmeric on Instagram.
