Shrishtee Bajpai
Shrishtee Bajpai is a young activist-researcher from India, exploring indigenous, traditional, and customary ways of living, decision-making and their underlying worldviews.
She is a member of Kalpavriksh (an environmental action group). She documents, researches, and networks radical alternatives to dominant systems of statism, capitalism, patriarchy and other forms of concentration of power.
She helps in coordinating the process of alternatives confluence in India called 'Vikalp Sangam' that aims to weave together the grassroots processes on alternatives. She also helps in coordinating a global process called the Global Tapestry of Alternatives which seeks to create exchanges, synergies, cross-learning, and collaboration amongst the various radical alternative and social/ ecological justice movements around the world. She is active with other social movements and youth groups in India. She has been researching and networking on Rights of Nature in South Asia with particular focus on rivers, and has helped intiate the rights of rivers south Asia alliance.