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Reporter, writer, editor. Born 1973 to Usha and Prabhash Joshi in Indore, MP. Studied English literature. Writes and edits for publications in Hindi and English on social and environmental matters, science, agriculture, sports, adventure and travel, technology and politics. Lives in Delhi. Travels often.

• Setting right the diesel skew can’t be a smooth ride

  By Sopan Joshi on February 5, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  [ This was published in Tehelka ] The automobile industry may not like it but the proposal to hike excise duty on diesel vehicles is good for the State exchequer and the environment Sopan Joshi THE PROPOSED excise duty hike… Read More ›

• समाज नामक संस्था का एक कर्मचारी

  By Sopan Joshi on January 23, 2012 • ( 1 )

  

  [ ये लेख ‘तहलका’ में छपा है ] Farhad.Tehelka सोपान जोशी यह संस्थाओं का जमाना है। सबसे बड़ी संस्था है सरकार। उससे बाहर जो हो वे गैरसरकारी कहलाती है। असरकारी दोनों कितनी होती हैं इसका जवाब देने की जरूरत नहीं… Read More ›

• Before you can say Harley-Davidson

  By Sopan Joshi on December 26, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  Prozac at Rs 12 lakh a pop By Sopan Joshi  [ Published in OPEN’s Dec 29, 2011 issue ] I want a boutique midlife crisis. I want a rich, comfortable life, replete with items of consumerism that provoke deep existential… Read More ›

• Durban: A short-term victory for a long-term loss

  By Sopan Joshi on December 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  When the time comes to prepare a climate treaty in 2015, based on the Durban declaration, India will plough a lone furrow By Sopan Joshi [ Published in Tehelka ] INDIA EXCHANGED a tactical victory for a strategic defeat at… Read More ›

• The Socratic Method

  By Sopan Joshi on December 11, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  A philosopher-footballer passes on By Sopan Joshi [ Published in OPEN magazine ] Socrates wasn’t the world’s greatest footballer. Nor the greatest in the national side he led. He wasn’t even the best midfielder in that team. Zico wore the… Read More ›

• जलवायु परिवर्तन: भोग और विलास का रोग

  By Sopan Joshi on December 8, 2011 • ( 2 )

  

    इस हफ्ते डरबन में हो रही सालाना बहसबाजी प्रतियोगिता हमें प्रलय से नहीं बचाएगी। पर शायद गरीबी से निकलने वाली सामाजिकता हमें बचा ले [ लेख का संपादित अंश दैनिक भास्कर की पत्रिका रसरंग में छपा था। मूल लेख… Read More ›

• मनसंपर्क का कंप्यूटर उबुंटु

  By Sopan Joshi on December 4, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  सोपान जोशी [ इस लेख का संपादित रूप नई दिल्ली के गांधी शांति प्रतिष्ठान की पत्रिका “गांधी मार्ग” के नवंबर–दिसंबर 2011 के अंक में छपा है ] धूप से तपते हमारे जीवन के रास्ते में गांधीजी एक घने पेड़ हैं। उनकी… Read More ›

• BIKANER: Land Of Milk & Money

  By Sopan Joshi on November 3, 2011 • ( 4 )

  

  Why Bikaneri food is a valuable export commodity. [ Published in Outlook Traveller ] By Sopan Joshi It was on the third day of my investigative journalism mission that I became proud of my bowels. Earlier, on the train to… Read More ›

• राग जॉब्स का अतिशयोक्ति रस

  By Sopan Joshi on October 17, 2011 • ( 1 )

  

  [ इस लेख का संपादित रूप दैनिक भास्कर के 13 अक्टूबर 2011 के दिल्ली संस्करण में छपा था ] ऐसा एक ही बार हुआ कि ऐपल कंपनी का बनाया कुछ खरीदने की मेरी इच्छा हुई। एक कंप्यूटर दिखा था दिल्ली… Read More ›

• Steve Jobs: Death of a salesman

  By Sopan Joshi on October 17, 2011 • ( 0 )

  

  [An edited version was published in the Deccan Herald ] The only time I came close to actually buying an Apple product was on a Sunday four years ago at Delhi’s Kabadi Bazar. It was a Macintosh SE of late-1980s… Read More ›