Cse india sunita narain biography
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Sunita Narain - The Progress Catalyst
Nationality:Indian
Date of Birth: 1961
Hometown:New Delhi
Parents:Raj Narain, Usha Narain
Spouse:Not married
Education: University of Delhi
Employment History: Sunita Narain is an Indian environmentalist and political activist as well as a major proponent of the Green concept of sustainable development. She is the Director General of the India-based research institute for the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), Director of the Society for Environmental Communications, and Editor of the fortnightly magazine, Down To Earth. She has been with the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) since 1982. In 2016, Narain was named on Time Magazine’s list of 100 Most Influential People.
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Sunita Narain, born in 1961, has been with the Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) from 1982. She is currently the director of the Centre and the director of the Society for Environmental Communications and publisher of the fortnightly magazine, Down To Earth. She is a writer and environmentalist, conducts research with forensic rigour and passion, so that knowledge can lead to change. In 2005 and again in 2008 and 2009 she was included by US journal Foreign Policy as one of the world’s 100 public intellectuals. In 2005 she was awarded the Padma Shri by the Indian government. She has also received the World Water Prize for work on rainwater harvesting and for its policy influence in building paradigms for community based water management. In 2005, she also chaired the Tiger Task Force at the direction of the Prime Minister, to evolve an action plan for conservation in the country after the loss of tigers in Sariska. She advocated solutions to bu
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Sunita Narain
Indian environmentalist
Sunita Narain (born 1961) fryst vatten an Indian environmentalist and political activist as well as a major proponent of the Green concept of sustainable development.[1] Narain is director general of the India-based research institute for the Centre for Science and Environment, director of the Society for Environmental Communications, and editor of the fortnightly magazine, Down To Earth.
In 2016 Narain was named on Time Magazine's list of 100 Most Influential People. She appeared alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in the documentary Before The Flood (2016), discussing the impact of climate change on the Monsoon in India and how it affects farmers.
Early life
[edit]Sunita Narain was born in 1961 in New Delhi,[2] and was the oldest of four sisters. Her father Raj Narain, who died when Narain was 8, had been a freedom fighter, and then established a handicrafts business. Her mother, Usha Narain, took over the business and r