Kanchi Kohli


Writing and information dissemination are key components of Kanchi’s work. She writes regularly in the mainstream newspapers and magazines as well as websites. She has contributed to three publications related to environment and forest clearance of development projects; special issue of Ecologist Asia on Dams in the North East, titled Large Dams in North East India: Rivers, Forests, People and Power (2003); and Eleven Years of Environment Impact Assessment Notification, 1994: How Effective Has It Been?. She also helped in updating the information in the publication, ‘Large Dams in North East India: a Dossier ’.

Presently, the focus of her work is related to campaigns and advocacy on various environment and biodiversity issues, with a critical component of support to grassroots groups. While she continues to be part of Kalpavriksh, she is independently coordinating the Forest Case Update in partnership with Ritwick Dutta.

You can contact Kanchi at kanchi@hathway.com


Ritwick Dutta

Ritwick Dutta is an Advocate in the Supreme Court and specializes in Public Interest Environmental law. He has been assisting environmental NGO’s, activists and other concerned groups to take up issues before the Supreme Court, the High Court, the Central Empowered Committee (CEC), The National Environmental Appellate Authority and other forums.

He is the recipient of the Carl Zeiss Roll of Honour, 2005 for wildlife conservation and member of the Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide (E-LAW) : a network of select environmental lawyers across the world. He is the author/editor of the Environmental Activists Handbook Vol I and II, Supreme Court on Forest Conservation (Universal Law Publishers) among others. Besides litigating he is also involved in environmental law training and capacity building especially for Forest and Wildlife department officers at various Protected Areas across the country.

You can contact Ritwick at  ritwickdutta@gmail.com