Shrishtee Bajpai
Shrishtee Bajpai is a researcher and writer working at the intersections of environmental justice, social justice, more-than-human governance, and systemic transformations. She is a member of Kalpavriksh, Vikalp Sangam, the Global Tapestry of Alternatives, and serves on the executive committee of the Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature.
If All Life Mattered, What Would Decision-Making Look Like?
In April 2013, the Supreme Court of India delivered a historic judgement recognizing the cultural, religious and spiritual rights of the Dongria Kondh Adivasis, an Indigenous community residing in the Niyamgiri Hills of Odisha state in eastern India. The community fighting against bauxite mining in their sacred landscape had articulated that “our way of life…