2026-07-28T15:12:51Zhttps://oai.catalogue.archives.ncbs.res.in/oai:archives.ncbs.res.in:/repositories/2/archival_objects/148432026-02-23T07:51:43ZArchives at NCBSTata Institute of Fundamental ResearchOH-003-45https://catalogue.archives.ncbs.res.in/repositories/2/archival_objects/14843Khanna, ShomonaVenkatram, Preeti ShreeVenkatram, Preeti ShreeShomona Khanna, 2023-12-182023-12-18127 MinutesengShomona Khanna is an advocate practicing at the Supreme Court of India and the Delhi High Court, known for her longstanding work since the early 1990s in human rights, environmental law, and the rights of adivasi and forest-dwelling communities. Through her legal practice, writing, and advocacy, she supports community-led conservation, democratic governance of forests, and constitutional literacy in local languages, ensuring grassroots voices are heard in policy and law.
Between 2013 and 2017, Khanna served as the Legal Advisor to the Ministry of Tribal Affairs, Government of India. In 2017, she established the Legal Resource Centre, a collective aimed at making legal knowledge accessible to tribal communities and others through research, writing, trainings and workshops.
As a noted legal scholar, Khanna has authored chapters in leading legal anthologies and produced a 17-part video course on forest and adivasi rights, available under a Creative Commons license. Her publications include chapters on forests rights and the Forest Rights Act in The Oxford Handbook of Environmental and Natural Resources Law in India (2024) and Routledge Readings on Law, Development and Legal Pluralism (2022).Collection is open for access unless mentioned in specific folders of the finding aidCopyright may not have been assigned to Archives, National Centre for Biological Sciences. The Archives at NCBS makes no representation that it is the copyright owner in all of its collections. The user must obtain all necessary rights and clearances before use of material and material may only be reproduced for academic and non-commercial use. See https://archives.ncbs.res.in/accessOral History: Ecology and Conservation, OH-003