The Yellow Turmeric

Sharmila Vaidyanathan is a freelance writer based in Bangalore, India.

She explores food entrepreneurship, sustainability, and environmental conservation through her writing.

Her work has appeared in Mongabay India, Goya, Nature inFocus, Hakai Magazine, Whetstone, Mold, The News Minute, Scroll, Deccan Herald, and others.

In 2020, she presented a paper on asafoetida’s culinary and cultural implications at the Oxford Food Symposium. She was among the 15 journalists globally to win the Earth Journalism Network’s Biodiversity Grant in 2022 (details here). She is also a member of the Oxford Climate Journalism Network (details here).

For more details and freelance writing projects, email theyellowturmeric@gmail.com.

Illustration Created By: Vidya Gopal (@spink_bottle)