Meet the Team
Abhijit Dey
a PhD student at ATREE, Bangalore.
He is exploring the Adivasi-Mahua relationship in Eastern India (Chota Nagpur Plateau). ​
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.
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 :)
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.
Joydeep
a mountaineer and independent researcher.
Other than researching on Hyena, he also looks after a mahua product initiative in Purulia, West Bengal.
Priyadarsanan D R
Priyan is an accomplished conservationist, having 30+ years of experience working with grassroot communities and their knowledge system for sustenance of natural resources.
He is our mentor in this journey.
Disclaimer !
​​The Mahua-verse is huge! This website is a voluntary initiative and we currently focus only with the English contents. ​​ Our goal is to make the process an ongoing, enriching journey by eventually incorporating content from regional languages as well.
This website is not perfect - it may contain unintentional factual inaccuracies or misleading information, despite our best efforts. You are strongly encouraged to report to us any errors or, misleading information, so that team can promptly acknowledge, discuss, and rectify them.
Again, this is entirely a voluntary initiative – by a group of people who are mesmerized by the world of Mahua – an attempt to tell her stories to the world. Lack of resources to keep this website up, running and updated and up-to-date is a challenging task. We will try our best. Thanks!​
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P.S. We are yet to touch upon facets like folk art and culture, ecological importance of the tree and various other uses. We will build upon these components in the coming days.​​