Shirish Khare is an active journalist for the last two decades and has been writing in favour of underprivileged and oppressed communities. About a thousand of his reports have been published while doing mainstream institutions like ‘Rajasthan Patrika’ and ‘Tehelka’ and independent journalism. Shirish was honoured with seven national level awards including ‘Ladli Media Award’ for Stories on Gender Sensitivity by ‘Press Council of India’ in 2013 and ‘United Nations Population Fund’ in year 2009, 2013 and 2020 for outstanding reporting on Indian villages Khare’s popular book ‘Ek Desh Barah Duniya’ published this year. He was felicitated with the KLF Hindi Book of the Year Award for Ek Desh Barah Duniya, Rajpal & Sons (2021).