Dinesh Lakhanpal, a creative writer-turned-journalist-turned film maker, heads a leading production house in Mumbai, India, the Mecca of Indian Film and Television Industry. With four international and two national awards, he has to his credit more than seventy documentaries and short films seventy, a feature film as Director-Script Writer and hundreds of articles contributed to almost all leading Hindi and English newspapers and magazines in India, on subjects as varies as Food, Hunger, Agriculture, socio-economic, socio-political, art, literature and traditional crafts including some biographical work on some leading Indian personalities.
He has actively participated in various International events like International Hindi Conference on Hindi Teaching in SEA at TUFS, Tokyo, Japan, COP 7 of the CBD Meeting at Kuala Lumpur, World Forum on Communication Rights, WSIS, Geneva, Switzerland, 7th World Hindi Conference, Suriname, Regional Seminar for the Protection of Farmer’s Rights, Kathmandu, Nepal, World Summit for Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, Conference on Sustainable Justice, Montreal, Canada, Conference on Intellectual Property Rights, Developing Countries and Poor People, held by UK Govt.’s Commission on IPR at. London, Millennium Wetland Event, Quebec 2000, COP 5 meeting of CBD held at UNEP HQs, Nairobi and World Bhojpuri Conference, Mauritius . At present he is also involved with a leading English monthly on governance, published from New Delhi, Gfiles – inside the government, as Editorial Consultant and a web-portal Bollywoodtoday.in the same capacity.