Asha Ramachandran is a Features Editor with The Statesman. In this position, she handles the features pages of the newspaper, including supplementaries and in the main paper. She also reports on environment and economic issues. She was earlier Special Correspondent with Delhi bureau of the newspaper. Her writings cover major policy issues of the government as well as events related to environment. She was briefly with The Mint, a business daily and sister organisation of The Hindustan Times. There she was, in her capacity as Deputy National Copy Chief, responsible for the production process of the news pages.
She was previously Coordinator of Down To Earth, an environment and science fortnightly brought out by the Centre for Science and Environment. She has also been a senior environment correspondent with the economic division of Press Trust of India, a leading news agency, which she joined in 1986. In a previous position at the news agency, she coordinated the features division and wrote a number of articles exploring crucial environmental issues from a cross-section of perspectives.
She has a Bachelor’s degree in Botany, Zoology and Chemistry. Her diploma in News Agency Journalism is from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication. She also holds an Advanced Diploma in French from the Delhi University and Alliance Francaise.