People who are bringing a change in the environment through our movement

Sreejith Madhusoodanan

Sandeep Sreelekha

Shailaja Tiwale

An award-winning independent journalist from Maharashtra, India, with a focus on public health, gender, environment, and climate reporting. Her work prioritises rural and marginalised communities and is grounded in rigorous field reporting.

Gourav Gogoi

Gourav Gogoi is an independent cinematographer and video editor based in Assam. He has worked with diverse teams and projects spanning the length and breadth of the Northeast region as well as the rest of the country. His work has been featured in BBC India, Vice Asia, Mongabay India, Facebook India, Ziro Music Festival, among others. He specialises in documentary films and adventure sports events.

Nandu Madhav V

Nandu is a cinematographer and photographer passionate about wildlife photography.

Harishanker KP

Hari is a cinematographer who thrives in the outdoors and has a keen eye for nature photography.

Kashif Shakeel

Asmita Nandy

Aadya Baoni

A freelance multimedia journalist, Erasmus Mundus Scholar, and awardee of the National Foundation for India Fellowship. Baoni's work has been featured in BBC UK, Vice World News, DW x Eco Scroll India and Quint.

Anupam Chakravartty

An independent journalist and researcher based in Assam, Anupam specializes in writing about intersections of ecological politics, human rights and grassroots activism with a journalistic experience spanning two decades.

Anuj Behal and Rohit Prashar

Anuj Behal is an independent journalist and urban researcher primarily focusing on issues of migration, justice, gender, and sexuality in India. Rohit Prashar is a journalist with a strong focus on environmental and developmental reporting in India. He covers a wide range of topics, including climate change, wildlife, agriculture, women’s issues, tribal affairs, and border regions. Rohit regularly contributes to national and international media such as Down To Earth, The Better India, Thomson Reuters, and National Herald. He was awarded the TERI Media Fellowship for Climate Change Reporting in the Himalayan region

Rohit Prashar

Rohit Prashar is a journalist with a strong focus on environmental and developmental reporting in India. He covers a wide range of topics, including climate change, wildlife, agriculture, women’s issues, tribal affairs, and border regions. Rohit regularly contributes to national and international media such as Down To Earth, The Better India, Thomson Reuters, and National Herald. He was awarded the TERI Media Fellowship for Climate Change Reporting in the Himalayan region

Vandita Sariya

Vandita is a writer and has covered themes like renewable energy, just transition, electric mobility, biodiversity, climate finance, employment, gender, etc. through her work.

Bhavan Venkatapathi

Bhavan Venkatapathi is a BeVisioneers Fellow and passionate about climate change adaptation and resilence, organic farming, and livelihood resilience among small and marginal farmers. Currently studying at Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bengaluru.

Dawa Dolma

A freelance journalist based in Leh who writes about Ladakh, its communities and culture, and the impact of climate change on the region. She spreads the love of reading among children through Shasta, a voluntary initiative.

Pallavi Prasad

Pallavi Prasad is a journalist and creative director with 10+ years of experience working with newsrooms, purpose-led brands and corporates, development organisations and media houses. Her beat spans gender, climate, public health, rights and travel, with a bias toward work that’s net-positive.

Sweta Daga

Sweta Daga (she/her) is a multimedia independent journalist based in Bangalore. Her work focuses on the intersection of climate justice, gender, and livelihoods.

Anushka Kale

Independent researcher and consultant in the field of sustainability and agroecology.

Subasree

An independent journalist based in Chennai, writing on the environment, policy, human struggles, empowerment and social justice.

Pooja Bhatia

A Journalism graduate from the Symbiosis Centre for Media and Communication, Pune, and a Masters of Public Policy (MPP) student from St Xavier's College, Mumbai. With past stints at think tanks and media houses, she is interested in the intersectionalities of gender, urban life, health, migration, and the environment.

Minal Sancheti

A Mumbai-based journalist with a keen interest in food, mental health and healthy lifestyles.

Phalguni Ranjan

A marine biologist-turned-science communicator passionate about making science accessible to all. She believes awareness and curiosity can drive positive change, and seeks to equip people with a deeper understanding of wildlife, nature, climate change and current environmental issues. 

Rama Ranee

Rama Ranee sees her small family farm as a significant effort towards maintaining ecological balance within a vulnerable ecosystem. Being a yoga-professional, she combines educational and therapeutic work for persons with special needs, with farming.

Arti Das

Arti Das is a freelance journalist based in Goa. She writes about art, culture, and ecology and has been published in The Guardian, The Hindu, Scroll.in, Mongabay-India, Goya Journal, and more.

Hiren Kumar Bose

A senior journalist by profession, Hiren dedicates his weekends to farming and has created a thriving food forest along the banks of a perennial river in Badlapur, Maharashtra. For the past two decades, he has also been sharing his farming journey through his blog at sundayfarmer.wordpress.com.

Esha Lohia

Esha Lohia is a Mumbai-based environment reporter and researcher. Her work focuses on uncovering the intricate relationships between humans and the natural world.

Soniya Pondcar

Soniya is a Mumbai-based features writer who covers socio-political issues, music, and film.

Colin Daileda

Colin is a freelance journalist in Bengaluru. His reporting, essays and photography have been published in The Atlantic, The Baffler, The News Minute, and many others. He writes a newsletter on Substack titled 'An uncanny thread' about the strangeness of climate change in everyday life.

Durga Sreenivasan

Durga is a writer and researcher passionate about sustainable solutions, conservation, and human-wildlife conflict.

Harshita Kale

Harshita is a writer who grew up on stories and the sea. She is interested in gender, queerness, climate, urban systems and social justice.

Priyanka Bhadani

Delhi-based independent journalist and content strategist.

Ritish Pandit, Arun V.B. and Milind Prakash

Sanskrita Bharadwaj

Independent journalist based in Assam, Northeast India, with bylines in multiple Indian and international publications.

Chaharika Uppal

Writer based out Delhi, interested in long-form narratives about how politics and climate intersect and impact individual lives.

Akshita Maheshwari

Mumbai-based features writer and journalist, interested in arts, culture, human interest stories, and how they all intersect to create social impact.

Abhijit Mohanty

Bhubaneswar-based independent journalist who reports on sustainable food, livelihood, women's leadership and climate change with a special focus on tribal and other marginalized communities of India.

Madhura Rao

A researcher, writer, and educator exploring how our food is produced, its social and environmental impact, and what food systems of the future might look like. Especially interested in sustainability, policy processes, and reimagining science-society relations.

Shuchita Jha

Shuchita Jha is a freelance environmental journalist in India with over a decade of experience covering climate, energy transition, and human rights. She has worked with The Times of India, Down To Earth, and Fast Company (Middle East), with her work featured in Mongabay-India, Zenger, and NatGeo Traveller.

Tanya Syed

Writer and researcher based in Mumbai; when she's not reporting on the visual arts, she's busy exploring community stories.

Kavitha Yarlagadda

Kavitha Yarlagadda is an independent journalist from Hyderabad and writes on the topics of Environment, Climate Change, Health, Science and Social development, she is a Civil Engineer with a Masters in Environmental Science.

Anuj Behal

Anuj Behal is an independent journalist and urban researcher primarily focusing on issues of migration, justice, gender, and sexuality in India.

Dimple Behal

Dimple Behal, an urban researcher and practitioner, has written for Caravan, IndiaSpend, Behanbox, and Down to Earth on gender, development, and the environment.

Worngachan Shatsang

Born in Ukhrul, Manipur, Worngachan was always drawn to places, people, and their stories. Writing from a young age, he later took up photography, which now shapes the narratives he tells.

Binu Karunakaran

Kochi-based poet, translator, and journalist, and a Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow. His poetry portfolio, Muchiri, was commended in the 2021 Michael Marks Awards, judged by UK poet laureate Ruth Padel.

Bara Bhaskaran

Kochi-based visual artist and chronicler of subaltern histories. He authored Ente Keralam Rekhakal, a visual travelogue, and Mother Forest: The Unfinished Story of CK Janu, a biography.

Prasoon Kiran

Prasoon Kiran, a photojournalist with 13+ years of experience, has been published in Malayala Manorama, The New Indian Express, Mathrubhumi Weekly, Mongabay, and Frontline.

Anushka Mukherjee

Bangalore-based journalist & multimedia producer, experienced in producing meaningful stories in Indian business, politics, food & nutrition; with a special interest in narrative audio journalism.

Shevlin Sebastian

A senior journalist cum author based in Kochi. His non-fiction crime book, 'The Stolen Necklace' was published by HarperCollins in 2023.

Aarushi Agrawal

An independent culture journalist with an interest in reading, writing and spending time with her cat.

Arun VB

A Research Assistant for the ICSSR-JSPS Project on “SMART Pedagogy through Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL)” at IIT Jodhpur. Currently pursuing a Master’s in Digital Humanities.

Ritish Pandit

A freelance writer and previously contributed his writings to the Indian Express, Article-14, The Quint, Scroll, Feminism in India, and Outlook India. He is presently a student of Master’s in Computational Social Science at IIT Jodhpur.

Vijayalakshmi Sridhar

A features and fiction writer based out of Chennai. 

Saliq Manzoor & Mohammad Athar Najar

Saliq Manzoor and Mohammad Athar Najar are freelance multimedia journalists from Kashmir

Shah Khursheed

A freelance journalist from Kashmir, writing on education, culture, social issues, the environment, and contributing columns to local dailies.

Ranjini Sivaswamy

An independent writer who's here to tell stories that make a difference.

Rida Fathima

Rida is interested in exploring the intersections of climate, policy and food ecosystems. Now, she is keen on writing about how climate and food insecurity affect livelihoods

Neerja Deodhar

A Mumbai-based journalist and writer with nine years of experience in Indian newsrooms. She is a visiting faculty member at St. Xavier's College, Mumbai, and Xavier Institute of Communications, Mumbai

Fathima Ashraf

A seasoned journalist with a diverse portfolio spanning lifestyle, entertainment, travel, food, art, and culture. Over the past seven years, she has contributed to notable publications such as The New Indian Express, The Hindu, Times of India, and South First.

T A Ameerudheen

Travels, writes, shoots and edits

Michael Caruso

An environmental activist who has a passion for working towards a greener future. When Michael isn't writing, you can find him playing guitar or studying the newest findings in environmental science.

K Surekha

I am a Kochi-based journalist who has formerly worked with The New Indian Express and The Times of India.

Tauseef Ahmad

Freelance journalist based in Kashmir, covering conflict, food, climate change, environment, and society, with work featured in outlets like Mongabay India, Fair Planet, Down to Earth, and more.

Bhaskar Basava

An independent journalist in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, he reports on politics, human rights, social justice, and critical ground-level stories. He has recently expanded into climate change and environmental reporting.

Laasya Shekhar

An independent journalist based in Chennai, who writes predominantly on environment, wildlife and gender.

Ananya Singh

I am an independent journalist and writer based in Delhi-NCR working at the intersection of environment, gender and health, with a focus on social and climate justice.

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi

I am a New Delhi-based freelance journalist

A K Shiburaj

I'm an independent journalist based in Kerala covering news for Keraleeyam Masika, Counter Currents, The Wire and more.

Hamaad Habibullah

I am a New Delhi-based journalist who work has been published in TRT World, The New Arab, Index on Censorship and Religion News Service, among other publications.

Mohammad Aatif Ammad Kanth

A Kashmir-based journalist covering finance, economics, and the environment, with work featured in Article-14, Down To Earth, India Times, 101 Reporters, Deccan Herald, and more.

Sameer Mushtaq

A freelance journalist based in Kashmir, who has extensively covered the complex and sensitive issues of the region for prominent national and international publications.

Harshith Venkatesha

When I’m not behind the screen, you’ll find me jamming like a monk, sketching out new concepts, or diving into the latest trends and producing art.

Sandeep S

Bharat Dogra

Honorary Convener, Campaign to Save Earth Now, and the author of books such as 'Man over Machine', and 'India’s Quest for Sustainable Farming and Healthy Food'.

Nidhi Jamwal

With 25 years of experience, I report on environmental, climate, and rural issues from my base in Mumbai.

Maneesh

Ananyo Chatterjee

Tasmia Ansari

Tasmia writes nonfiction that explores how food and climate impact both our lives and the planet.

Sneha Mahale

Beyond my professional life as a writer and editor, I enjoy exploring gadgets, planning my next travel, and doting on my two cats, Milo and Gauri.

Ebin Gheevarghese

Editor by trade. LLMs live rent free in my head. When I'm not glued to the news, I am either buried in books or watching tennis.

Navneet Vallampati

A biologist at heart. He graduated with a BSc in Biology in 2024 and is passionate about music, movies and music. Currently, he’s pursuing his Master's at Cardiff University

Lata Vishwanath

I’m a writer and entrepreneur from Bengaluru. I worked at the Government Defense Research and Electronics Test Lab. My first book, Autumn Showers, tells the story of Indian society through the lens of agriculture.

Shreyas S Kumar

I like to dip my fingers in a lot of things - video editing, photography, ketchup, guitar, you name it. But mostly I just like to read and write.

Jigyasa Mishra

An independent journalist reporting on environment, public health, civil liberties, culture and gender. She illustrates, photographs, films and writes from rural north India

Puja Bhattacharjee

My journalism spans health, science, environment, and culture, with a focus on justice and policy. I’m based in Kolkata.

Vidisha Barwal

As a landscape architect and professor, I’ve contributed to the UNESCO nomination of the Living Root Bridges in Meghalaya and write for My Liveable City magazine.

Kirti Kumari

I’m a photographer and researcher, and my work, based in Shillong, delves deep into the intersection of art, nature, and ancient knowledge systems.

Kanika Sharma

As an independent journalist, I cover books, culture, and community across major Indian publications including Hindustan Times, Mint Lounge, The Hindu, etc.

Rashi Goel

A freelance writer passionate about environmental issues, nature, food, and sustainability. A storyteller and content specialist, Rashi works with organisations in the environmental sustainability space to help them articulate their big visions. She blogs about sustainable living at Green OK Please.

Saritha S. Balan

Based in Thiruvananthapuram, I have extensive experience in Indian media, including roles at TheNewsminute and India Today magazine.

Akhil Vasudevan

A freelance journalist and communications professional who works mainly on criminal justice and cinema of South India. Akhil is currently based in London.

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Kasturi Das

I cover climate, health, wildlife, travel, and culture as a freelance journalist based in Guwahati.

Mythri Babu

Likes to draw things and give them movement. She takes photographs but mostly draws things and gives them movement.

Nevin Thomas

Daniel Albarta