I have written about injustice many times before.

Whenever I saw something wrong happening, I would write about it, mostly on Medium or my blog. My audience was small. I never had the courage to make videos about these things or openly talk about them on Instagram.

That changed this year.

The student protest at Jantar Mantar changed something inside me. I felt like I got my spine back.

On July 16, I started raising my voice more openly. Then, on July 20, I saw police brutality during the protests. That changed me completely.

The next day, July 21, I published this article on Medium: “The World Needs to See This — Why Millions of Indian Students Are Protesting”.

On July 25, the government accepted the students’ demand. That’s when I realized, “Meri aur tumhari awaaz uthane se farq padta hai.” Our voices can actually make a difference.

On August 10, I suddenly started seeing posts about what was happening around Kaziranga. I wrote this post on Instagram.

“Something serious is happening around Kaziranga, and we need to talk about it.

There is a proposal to reduce the Eco-Sensitive Zone around Kaziranga from 10 km to just 1 km.

Luxury hotels and resorts are being planned around the area, raising questions about wildlife, land and local communities.

Pranab Doley, who has been protesting against these projects, is currently detained under the National Security Act (NSA).

Development shouldn’t mean bringing more commercial activity closer to one of our most important wildlife habitats while silencing people who raise questions about it.

We need to ask: development for whom, and at whose cost?

Kaziranga belongs to all of us. We need to protect its wildlife, its environment, and the people who live around it.”

The post went viral. It crossed 800,000 views.

People from other states started talking about Kaziranga too. Some influencers started making videos about it. And I realized that maybe I could use my small platform for something bigger than myself.

I created the @SaveKaziranga page and started posting about the issue every day.

I made videos about Kaziranga and Pranab Doley, and in those videos, I also asked creators, artists, editors, and other content creators to come forward and create videos, artwork, or anything they could to support the movement. I wanted people to use their creativity and whatever skills they had to help raise awareness and collaborate with @SaveKaziranga

People started asking me to create a petition, so I started one on August 11. Since then, more than 163,000 people have signed it.

After starting the petition, I also created a Take Action page. My goal was to make it as easy as possible for anyone to support the movement and take action within seconds.

People can send emails to the authorities with just one click, download the campaign DP and supporter certificate, sign the statement supporting Pranab Doley, and find other ways to stand with Kaziranga.

I wanted to remove as many barriers as possible so that anyone who cared about the issue could do something, even if they only had a few minutes.

At one point, I became really demotivated. I was doing everything alone, and when the petition reached around 20,000 signatures, I even had a fever. I started thinking about deleting the page, the petition, everything.

I messaged a few creators and told them how demotivated I was and that I needed their support. Hrittize Baruah, a filmmaker and influencer, was one of the first people to reply and support me. One of my brothers and mentors also encouraged me not to give up.

Then the Kaziranga Peoples Festival page reached out to me. We had a call on Instagram, and they told me not to give up.

Later, Kunal Das, another activist, reached out to me. He helped me connect with more people, content creators, and others who cared about the issue.

We started working together, sharing information, motivating each other and learning from each other.

As more content creators joined, we started digging deeper together. Different people found different pieces of information. Some of the research around the proposed luxury hotel project and its connection with Juniper Hotels came from this collective effort.

Juniper Hotels acquired Jenipro Hotels in March 2025, and Jenipro held a long-term lease for land for a proposed five-star hotel/resort near Kaziranga.

We also came across information about rare-earth elements in the Kaziranga Eco-Sensitive Zone. A government technical record estimated around 33.9 million tonnes of REE-bearing material, with an average concentration of about 818.84 ppm total rare-earth elements across the explored area.

We started making videos about this too. Our core team also researched other issues, including concerns around mining near Kaziranga, and some of them even went to the field to understand what was happening on the ground. Later, they faced threats because of their work.

Later, on September 13, we organized a Twitter/X storm for the Save Kaziranga Movement with There Is No Earth B.

Dhrstadyumn Khera (DD) and the team at There Is No Earth B helped us organize the Twitter/X storm and taught me a lot throughout the process. I learned from them about organizing people, creating campaigns, and bringing different people together around an issue.

It was another reminder that I wasn’t doing this alone anymore. There were people and organizations who were willing to stand with us, help us and teach us.

DD also told me about the Youth Climate Centre. That’s how I came to know about the Youth Climate Convening and some of the opportunities available for young people working on climate and social justice.

Whatever I’m doing, I feel like I’m being a responsible citizen. And honestly, it feels really good when random people message me and say, “Thank you for raising your voice.”

That’s probably the biggest reason I haven’t stopped.

I want people who are scared to speak, or people who don’t know how to create content, to see that they can still do something.

You don’t need millions of followers.

You don’t need to be an expert.

Sometimes you just need to care enough to start.

I know what I’m doing can be risky. I know I’m fighting against some powerful monsters. But at this point, I don’t want fear to decide whether I speak or stay silent.

And I also know that I couldn’t have continued without the people who stood beside me.

The Kaziranga Peoples Festival page. My mentors. Kunal Das. Prateek Talukdar, Hrittize Baruah, Sandhya Ma’am, Naimisha Saikia, Joy, Drift NE, Polash, and a few other amazing people. DD and the team at There Is No Earth B. The organizations that reached out. The people who offered legal support. And the thousands of people who signed the petition and shared our content.

This movement belongs to everyone who decided that Kaziranga was worth speaking up for.

If you want to stand with Kaziranga but don’t know where to start, visit the Save Kaziranga Take Action page. There are several ways you can support the movement and take action, even if you only have a few minutes.

If you’re a young person already working on climate or social justice, there is another opportunity I want you to know about.

The Youth Climate Centre is organizing the Youth Climate Convening in India from January 21–27, 2027. If you’re selected, travel, food, and accommodation are covered. The Expression of Interest deadline is October 31, 2026.

If you’ve already taken action, started something, led a campaign, organized people, or are working on an issue you believe in, I think you should apply.

Apply by filling out the Expression of Interest form. Maybe this could be the beginning of something bigger for you too.

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