Environmental activism Archives

The Indegenous Equation: How Bhavna Choudhury became a global voice for tribes in Assam

by Bindu Gopal Rao | Dec 30, 2024

(December 29, 2024) Bhavna Choudhury remembers how, on Teacher’s Day, children didn’t come to class with pens or bouquets. Instead, they arrived with their hands full of Lao, Ou-Tenga, Kordoi, all grown in their own backyards. Growing up in a small indigenous...

The Waterman of India: How Magsaysay awardee Rajendra Singh revived 12 rivers across India

by Darshana Ramdev | Dec 24, 2024

(December 24, 2024) In the 1980s, the inhabitants of Gopalpura, a village in Rajasthan, were suffering from a disease they called ‘rathondi’, or night blindness. In 1985, Rajendra Singh, an Ayurvedic doctor and the founder of an NGO named Tarun Bharat...

Meet Bulu Imam, the archaeologist who is protecting tribal art

by Namrata Srivastava | Mar 23, 2024

(March 23, 2024) He dedicated his youth to conserving the tribal art and thick forests of Jharkhand. Now 79 years old, Padma Shri Bulu Imam lives in a colonial house nestled in a grove of tall trees and lush bushes, in Hazaribagh, Jharkhand. The...