User:Ssjeevan

S S Jeevan is an Indian journalist. He has been working in various print publications in India since 1997 -- The Asian Age (1997), Down To Earth (2003), Express (2005), India Today (2006), Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), (2007) and Hindustan Times (2008).

Education
Jeevan did his schooling from St Xavier's, Delhi, and Sardar Patel Vidyalaya, New Delhi. He graduated in English from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, and studied journalism at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), New Delhi. He also holds two degrees in art -- one from the Shankar's Academy of Art and Graphics, New Delhi, and, another from the National Museum, New Delhi.

Background
Jeevan has been working in the field of development and the media and has written on several issues -- environment, health, development, politics, democracy and human rights. His articles have been reprinted by several international organisations. He is now based in Chennai, India.

He has written for several academic publications: Triggering Disasters, Disaster Mitigation and Management: Post Tsunami Perspectives (Deep and Deep publications, 2007); The Virtual Village – Information Technology in Rural India, Dr. Abdul Kalam’s Model for Social Transformation (Deep and Deep publications, 2005) and, El Nino, Child of Chaos, Survival Primer, Anil Agarwal et al, Society for Environmental Communications, 2001.

Writings
Some of his selected writings can be found at