Viju B

He reported chiefly on issues at the intersection of development, ecology, and culture. While working in Mumbai for various national newspapers, he covered the catastrophic 26/7 Mumbai floods, the 26/11 terror attacks and the Gujarat riots. He exposed the Rs 50,000 crore Sindhudurg mining scam in the Western Ghats and was part of the core investigative team that exposed the Adarsh Building scam in Mumbai, which eventually led to Maharashtra Chief Minister Ashok Chavan's resignation.

In 2018, he extensively covered the Kerala floods, travelling to the state's worst-hit areas. To write the award-winning book Flood and Fury: Ecological devastation of the Western Ghats, he travelled through several states from Kerala to Maharashtra along the Western Ghats to narrate stories of ecological destruction from forests to mining and mismanagement of natural resources.

The book also etched people's struggles, micro-histories and cultural aspirations of communities living in this region. In the Wayanad chapter, the author, based on scientific data, predicted the possibility of major disasters in Wayanad. There have been two major landslides in Puthumala and Mundakkai after Kerala floods in 2018.