I Will Save My Land

Author Rinchin in conversation with Shripad Dharmadhikary

The fifth Reading for Change event took Rinchin’s I Will Save My Land as an entry point to SDG 7 Clean and Affordable Energy. I Will Save My Land is a picture book that tells the story of a young girl, Mati, who is determined to save her and her family’s plot of land from the impending development of a coal mine.

Author Rinchin and Shripad Dharmadhikary, an activist, researcher, and coordinator of the Manthan Adhyayan Kendra, were in conversation about I Will Save My Land and the conflicts and concerns around affordable and clean energy on the 5th of December.

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About the Speakers

Rinchin is a writer and an activist based in Madhya Pradesh and Chattisgarh. She also writes for children and her writing reflects her social engagement with several peoples movements for the past two decades.

Shripad Dharmadhikary is an activist, researcher, and coordinator of the Manthan Adhyayan Kendra that studies water and energy policies. His interests include dams, rivers, environmental flows, inland waterways, water privatisation and coal-water nexus. A graduate engineer from IIT Bombay he was earlier an activist for 12 years with the Narmada Bachao Andolan. He is based outside Pune. He is a member of the Forum for Policy Dialogue on Water Conflicts in India and also on its Steering Committee. He writes extensively on issues of water, environment and development.