Pratik Pawar

Selected Writing

Science

Can animals predict earthquakes? Study on an Italian farm hint at an answer

_{Discover, July 2020}

Barn owlets share food with their younger siblings in exchange for grooming

_{The Washington Post, June 2020}

Did you know? On average, Mercury is Earth's closest neighbour

_{The Wire, March 2019}

Science Policy

Strict biodiversity laws prevent Indian scientists from sharing new microbes with the world

_{Science, October 2020}

Netflix and Amazon Prime Video flout India's tobacco control regulations

_{The Wire, April 2020}

Miscellaneous

Dissecting the craft of biographical non-fiction writing: An interview with Samanth Subramanian

_{The Open Notebook, October 2020}

What is AI good for? An interview with Jay Yagnik, Vice President at Google AI

_{Connect Magazine, March 2019}

About

Pratik Pawar is an independent science journalist based in Bangalore, India. His stories have appeared in Connect Magazine, Discover, Science News, The Open Notebook, The Washington Post, The Wire, among other publications.

He was awarded the EurekAlert! Fellowship for International Science Reporters in early 2020. He is also a recipient of the 2019 S. Ramaseshan Science Writing Fellowship offered by the Indian Academy of Sciences.

Pratik holds a master's degree in biotechnology and has been writing about science since 2018.