Articles by Mukul Sharma

Mukul Sharma is a professor of environmental studies at Ashoka University, India. He has published Caste and Nature: Dalits and Indian Environmental Politics (2017), Defining Dignity: An Anthology of Dreams, Hopes and Struggles (ed., 2005), and Unquiet World: Dalit Voices and Visions (ed., 2004). He has worked in media and civil society organisations and was associated with World Social Forum, World Dignity Forum, and National Confederation of Dalit Organisations.

“Whose Anthropocene? Whose Environmental Justice?”

October 11, 2025

This interview reimagines the contours of the city. Mukul Sharma offers us an alternate history of Chandigarh through Nek Chand’s contribution to it, and positions Dalit eco-narratives as a lens to widen the scope of environmental justice.

Nek Chand: Life Narratives Through Displacement, Discards and History of the Earth

October 11, 2025

This is an excerpt from the chapter ‘Anthropocene: “Modern” Chandigarh, Nek Chand, Rock Garden and Dalitbahujan Anthropocenes’ in Mukul Sharma’s Dalit Ecologies: Caste and Environment Justice (2024).