AUTHOR | ARTIST | ANALYST forests, food, and land rights of rural and indigenous peoples |
My story is my choice to be a curious mind and a creative soul. I identify myself as an indigenous author, artist, analyst, and academician. One World. For my work, I have been an expat - resident for two or more years - outside India. I lived in 10 countries in South and Southeast Asia, South and North America, East Africa, and Europe. I am fluent in English, Bengali, Hindi and Marathi, and communicate in Spanish, French, Bahasa Indonesia, Gujarati while have basic command on Bhili dialect, Swedish, and Urdu.
My professional career has been with a diverse range of institutions - starting with non-governmental organizations, working with philanthropy, and research organizations, and most recently with an academic/ higher educational institute. As an anthropologist, my work have always been on the interface of the social and political ecology of forests, agroforestry, small farms, and land tenure rights of rural and mainly Indigenous communities including pastoralists and hunting-gathering tribes in the tropics. Academic: My interdisciplinary Ph.D. degree in Forest Rights from Wageningen University, the Netherlands combines my interdisciplinary expertise in social science, and environmental science. I hold a Masters degree from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. Fellowships include Beahrs Environmental Leadership Program at the University of California, Berkeley; the Biodiversity and Monitoring Program at the Smithsonian Institute, Front Royal, Virginia; and Training in Environment Education at CEE, Ahmedabad, among a few others.
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