Authors

Adil Raza Khan is a freelance journalist and advertising communication specialist

Dr. Ravi Chellam is currently the Director of the Mission Secretariat, National Mission on Biodiversity and Human Well-Being and Chief Executive Officer at Metastring Foundation. Dr. Ravi Chellam has been involved with wildlife and biodiversity research, education and conservation since the early 1980s. He has a Masters Degree in Wildlife Biology from AVC, College, Bharatidasan University and a Doctorate from Saurashtra University based on his work on the ecology of the Asiatic Lions.

A Mechanical Engineer, with advanced management studies, 22 years of experience in Power industry - working for innovative, cost effective and sustainable solutions and products. Worked with leading compnies in the a industry like Kalpataru Power and Adani Power. Founded ‘Advait infratech Ltd’ in 2009, now engaged in manufacturing of OPGW, OFC, ACS, ERS, stringing tools, and experts in live line projects

Parag Jyoti Saikia is a doctoral candidate in socio-cultural anthropology at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He studies the construction of a hydropower dam to understand how infrastructures in-the-making shape everyday life, environment, and geopolitics in a frontier region of India. He is currently a SAPIENS Public Scholar Training Fellow (2023-2024) with SAPIENS magazine. His dissertation research was supported by Social Science Research Council’s International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Wenner-Gren Foundation’s Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, and Off-Campus Dissertation Research Fellowship from University North Carolina’s Graduate School. Parag has been associated with activist organizations working on dams, rivers, and environment in India for almost a decade. These experiences along with his belonging to the area he works on for his doctoral research, has made him committed to engaged public scholarship. Parag has written several articles, op-eds, and blogs about dams, rivers, politics, and citizenship both in English and Assamese, his mother tongue.