
The Guardians of Life
Shrishtee Bajpai
1st March, 2023
'Activist and writer Shrishtee Bajpai on working alongside Indigenous peoples from a pristine river in Ladakh to an urban forest in Mumbai. From our latest issue ARK
We went to see what we might save,
what might be of use,
what exquisite scrap we might glean
‘It’s not where you come from that matters, but how you live in a place.’ We look at what it takes for modern deracinated peoples to ‘return’ home to the Earth: to resist the destructive forces of Empire and regain a primary relationship with the wild world.
Our full-colour Autumn 2022 edition is an ARK carrying a cargo of testimonies, stories and artwork gleaned after the flood