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Neha Sinha

Neha Sinha

Conservation biologist, author of Wild Capital, and Head of Policy and Communications at WWF-India

Aug 4, 2026

28:18
Can you talk about what the Yamuna meant to you and, and how it, how do you rebuild that in the imaginations of the people of Delhi?
28:29
So the Yamuna comes from a glacier in the Himalayan Mountains.
28:33
It's a glacier-fed river.
28:35
It's, it's a sacred river, and it's a perennial river.
28:39
It, it flows throughout the year, and it joins the Ganga River, which then falls into the sea.
28:44
So it's an old, um, sacred river.
28:48
And it used to be this gorgeous, merry river until we started throwing all our sewage into it, until we started building along the banks of it and basically constraining the flow of the river.

14 MINS LATER

43:05
Um, please explain how and elaborate on that for us.
28:18
Can you talk about what the Yamuna meant to you and, and how it, how do you rebuild that in the imaginations of the people of Delhi?
28:29
So the Yamuna comes from a glacier in the Himalayan Mountains.
28:33
It's a glacier-fed river.
28:35
It's, it's a sacred river, and it's a perennial river.
28:39
It, it flows throughout the year, and it joins the Ganga River, which then falls into the sea.
28:44
So it's an old, um, sacred river.
28:48
And it used to be this gorgeous, merry river until we started throwing all our sewage into it, until we started building along the banks of it and basically constraining the flow of the river.

14 MINS LATER

43:05
Um, please explain how and elaborate on that for us.
25:59
But is there a checklist for you? after which you decide, now I have enough material for a book?
26:06
That's a very good question.
26:08
So 10 years of my observations are in Wild Capital.
26:13
And I would say 10 years of my experience are in Wild and Willful.
26:18
So I don't know if 10 years is the answer, because that's a very long period of time.
26:22
But I think one needs to immerse oneself in the subject, if it's nonfiction.
26:28
You know, I mean, there are also fiction books that people write from imagination.

11 MINS LATER

37:49
It makes it

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