Vivek Gupta is a freelance journalist based in Chandigarh, India. He has covered stories on politics, education, rights, environment and climate change impact in the last 15 years of his professional career. As an independent writer, his stories have appeared in The Wire, Mongabay and other news web portals. In 2021, he was awarded the National Foundation of India fellowship besides getting selected for Thomson Reuters Foundation’s flagship Changemaker programme.