Nirmala Carvalho, a veteran journalist who contributes regularly to Church publications in India and overseas, has won the prestigious Golden Pen Award for excellence in journalism, given by The Examiner, a 175-year-old weekly published from Mumbai.
Cardinal Oswald Gracias, Archbishop of Bombay, presented her the 21st award on March 10 during a function in the western Indian city to mark the 175th anniversary of the weekly.