Darryl D’Monte was Resident Editor of The Times of India” and the Indian Express in Mumbai. He writes for several newspapers and websites and has devoted himself to networking environmental journalists in India and throughout the world for nearly three decades.

He is the Chairperson of the Forum of Environmental Journalists of India (FEJI) and was the founder President of the International Federation of Environmental Journalists (IFEJ) in Dresden, Germany, in 1993. He was re-elected President in Cairo in November 2000 and now serves on its Administrative Council.

He is a Trustee of the Mumbai Waterfronts Centre, which in 2007 shared the first Deutsche Bank Urban Age Award of $100,000 for implementing a project in Mumbai which made a difference to citizens’ well being.

His book, Ripping the Fabric: The Decline of Mumbai and its Mills was published by Oxford University Press in Delhi in 2002 and reprinted as a paperback in June 2005. He edited a book titled Mills for Sale: The Way Ahead, Marg Publications, 2007. He published Temples Or Tombs? Industry Versus Environment, Centre for Science & Environment, in 1985, which deals with three case studies in the environment-development debate.