First published in
Vikalp Sangam and
Rights of Rivers South Asia. Republished here with permission from Poorva Goel.
Poorva Goel is a cartoonist/comic-maker based in Assam. She documents stories about people, places and paradigms through comics. As a graphic storyteller, she has collaborated with a range of experts across disciplines, and social and environmental movements and organizations. She has worked on graphic publications, reporting stories about communities and conservation. Poorva is interested in the relationships between political, social, and economic factors with environmental changes.
Ashish Kothari is a founder-member of Kalpavriksh and a member of many people’s movements. He taught at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, coordinated India’s National Biodiversity Strategy & Action Plan, and served on boards of Greenpeace International & India, ICCA Consortium. Ashish helps coordinate
Vikalp Sangam,
Global Tapestry of Alternatives, &
Radical Ecological Democracy. He is the co-author/co-editor,
Churning the Earth, Alternative Futures, and
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