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Meet the Team

Abhijit Dey, measuring a mahua tree for his PhD research work. Having a platform for Mahua is primarily his idea and effort.

Abhijit Dey

a PhD student at ATREE, Bangalore.

He is exploring the Adivasi-Mahua relationship in Eastern India (Chota Nagpur Plateau). ​

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Supreetha Devarakonda, trying her skills with a traditional leaf cup, during her Masters fieldwork

Supreetha

a development professional, focused on forest based livelihoods. 

Her Masters work studied the markets of Mahua and identified the bottlenecks preventing better returns for Adivasi communities.

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We are neither an organization, nor a company, nor claiming any expertise on the subject.
​We, can be better identified as a group of individuals who got the chance to know mahua a little closely and mesmerized by her magic.

In an endeavor to know mahua better, we felt stories of this fascinating tree and her people are better to reach to others as well... And hence, we are trying :)
To tell the stories of mahua, Mukesh, is busy with his lens

Mukesh Mahato

a nature photographer and documentary filmmaker.​

His family has a good number of mahua trees in a little village of Purulia, West Bengal. Mahua is a livelihood for them.

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Joydeep, in the forest, in his favorite attire - urban clothes but with a tribal axe

Joydeep

a mountaineer and independent researcher.

Other than researching on Hyena, he also looks after a mahua product initiative in Purulia, West Bengal.

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