[1] Miditech Studios first made a documentary series on the environment, Living on the Edge for Doordarshan, that won a Panda Award more familiarly known as the Green Oscar.
[5] The family moved to Delhi in 1974 when his mother was elected to the Rajya Sabha (the upper house of India's parliament).
Alva is a graduate in history from St. Stephen's College, Delhi, has a post graduate diploma in journalism from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, and is a recipient of a certificate from the Radio Netherlands Training Centre in Hilversum (Holland) for a news and current affairs course in television.
He covered subjects such as Indian attitudes toward sex, caste violence, the dangers of the civilian use of the army and the capture of Rajiv Gandhi's assassin.
Miditech Studios conservation and sustainability series, Living on the Edge won a Panda award, familiarly known as the Green Oscar, at Wildscreen in Bristol in 1996.