An award winning journalist and author with over 30 years’ experience of reporting on science, technology, innovation, medicine and environment related issues for national and international media outlets. Currently, his columns appear in Mail Today, Indiatoday.in, DailyO.in, Firstpost.com, besides dispatches in medical journal, The Lancet and other international publications. He is also a contributing author for the Ecological Society of America. In June 2008, Dinesh had the privilege of becoming first Asian journalist to go to the Arctic to report on an ongoing international scientific expedition relating to climate change. This resulted in a science travelogue, Witness to the Meltdown (Vigyan Prasar, 2015).
His career as an author began with the award of New India Fellowship in 2006. Since then he has authored three major books. An international, updated edition of his book on India's IT industry was published by the MIT Press (USA) in 2015 as The Outsourcer: The Story of India’s IT Revolution, under its celebrated ‘History of Computing’ series edited by William Aspray and Thomas J Misa. In 2016, The Outsourcer won the prestigious Computer History Museum Book Prize instituted by the Society for the History of Technology.

Dinesh has a Master’s degree in Communication and Journalism from Osmania University, and is pursuing Ph D from Banaras Hindu University.