Nikhil Chaudhary (environmentalist)

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Nikhil Chaudhary is an environmentalist, [1] urban-planner, architect, [2] [3] and cartoonist [4] [5] from Maharashtra, India. His work has been featured [3] as contributing to a growing movement to use comics as advocacy tools [6] for environmental and urban issues. [7] [8] He is a contributing author [9] to the recent book, Longform: An Anthology of Graphic Narratives. [10] Most recently, his work was featured in the documentary-series, Compass by the TRT World - on an episode investigating the role of art and artists addressing Gentrification. [11]

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