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Our vision is to create a world where it is aspirational to engage with the law, especially from small towns—to serve communities and the planet.
Join us as we begin by establishing community spaces + libraries for protecting the Himalayas.
कहानी ਕਹਾਣੀ কাহিনী ལེགས་སྟོན་ Story کہانی
The Center began as a website in the summer of 2021 in the midst of the pandemic in India. We decided early on to invest in first understanding ongoing environmental issues of the Himalayas, whilst making a commitment to locating ourselves in this region. We are achieving this by seeking relevant information—now running into tens of thousands of pages, directly from the Indian state—systematically recording our findings and making them accessible open source from the internet as well as the ground level. We're doing this from Dharamshala, in beautiful Kangra valley.
This process, now covering the larger third pole region, continues to attract talent from subcontinent—leading to extensive and credible knowledge resources—that form an irrefutable basis for community action to protect the environment. We have been equally focused on leveraging different formats to communicate our work with the world—google docs, letters, paperbacks, quick response codes and stickers. We are proud to have our work accessible from some of the most remote and vulnerable parts of the third pole, institutions such as Oxford, Princeton, Cambridge & Yale, and in the hands of the public, lawmakers, judges and bureaucrats.
Our journey till now has equipped us to partner with individuals, communities and organizations to address complex environmental issues of fragile land and waterscapes such as those in the third pole, in an agile, authentic, bold and unique way that balances legal action with community advocacy.
We are proudly building in India, with Indian money and for + from the Himalayas. We document our story via "The Dhauladhar", our newsletter.