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My work with urban poor women who earn living from sewarage fishculture has two uncommon challenges other than poverty alleviation and alternative clean livelihood. One of this is social change of attitude amongst the urban consumers that wastewater fisheries donot supply contaminated fishes that can creat health hazards and the other challange is policy change to support these women through resource mobilization from mainstream fisheries. People are yet not ready to accept that wastewater is not a pollution liability but a raw resource that needs to be recycled for revenue generation. So I believe I am a changemaker.

I really miss green pastures and sand beaches without plastic packets and sasche. My childhood reminiscences from villages of Bihar reminds me of more green than grey concrete jungles. Even now when I chance to see one, I feel great.

Rural poor must be compensated for their opportunity cost for conserving the natural resources by the urban sector, who has failed to do so and now putting the rural livelihood at stake exposing the people to more hazards and crisis. I want this change to happen immediately.

I started my career in PR and mass communication in academics. My acumen in socialwork at the grassroots and vision of a changemaker brought me to civil society platform where I started working for women empowerment and microfinance and started researching on non conventional environmental risk communication models through alternative communication. I am priviledged to travel in the countries of global south under the aegis of fellowships from International Association for the Studies in Commons Property, International Association for Impact assessment and International Disaster Reduction Center. This exposure has given me the insight about the vulnerability of women that are common everywhere. while working in south Bhutanese Refugee camps in Nepal, Flood shelters of Bangladesh and climate refugees of deltaic Sunderban one thing I have learnt that still poverty is the best resource and this sells at the highest price. Unfortunately we still remain the tool for such markets. I have started therefore, a periodical named GREEN Interpreters (ISSN-0975-9824), GREEN stands for Global Review for Environmental Economic Negotiations. True empowerment will be that when people in crisis will not be at the receiving end in global south. I am awaiting that dawn.