Pratibha Umashankar-Nadiger straddles two disciplines – academics and journalism. She was, till recently, the Associate Editor of Climate Control Middle East, and was formerly Consulting Editor of Books & More. As Special Feature Writer for Weekend magazine, Khaleej Times, she received the Best Feature Writer award for 2008 and 2009 from the government of Dubai, UAE. Apart from cover stories, interviews, edit pieces, and essays in literary journals, her published works include two coffee table books profiling eminent Zoroastrians, a biography in Kannada, a set of English textbooks (co-authored) and translations of Jayant Kaikini’s short stories and poems in Muse India. Penguin Random House India has just brought out her translation of Yashwant Chittal’s Kannada masterpiece Shikari, titled Shikari the Hunt.
