Himalayan Advocacy 
Center

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.

 

We are proudly building in India, with Indian money and for + from the Himalayas. We document our story via "The Dhauladhar", our newsletter.