David Sathuluri

David Sathuluri is an anti-caste, climate justice, and human rights advocate who writes at the intersections of caste, climate, culture, philosophy, politics, and decolonial thought

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The Supreme Court in New Delhi.

A blueprint for caste-conscious climate policy: Why the Supreme Court’s report on judicial conceptions of caste matters now

David Sathuluri

04 Dec 2025

4 min read

Johny, a 29-year-old manual scavenger, working in a septic tank in Ghaziabad, Uttar Pradesh in 2017. He merely earned Rs 300 a day to do a job which reduces life expectancy as many manual scavengers develop asthma, skin infections and tuberculosis at work.

Invisible deaths: How India’s climate crisis abandons its sanitation workers

David Sathuluri

01 Nov 2025

6 min read

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