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mid-day's 39th anniversary: Father to a forest

For this conservationist, wildlife photographer and co-founder of the Save Aarey campaign, a forest in the city will always be worth fighting for

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Manish Gadia's love affair with Aarey began in 2006 when he would visit it for a jog or plantation drive. Pic/Shadab Khan

Manish Gadia's love affair with Aarey began in 2006 when he would visit it for a jog or plantation drive. Pic/Shadab Khan

Manish Gadia, 36
Banker, Save Aarey co-founder

He has been breathing green for more than a decade. And he's only just begun. Manish Gadia, co-founder of the Save Aarey movement, is actually a banker, who regularly spends weekends in the lush environs of Aarey Milk Colony in Goregaon East. On the Saturday he meets us, he takes us to a patch of land filled with saplings — a project his group undertook with a Bohri trust, just one of umpteen initiatives he had spearheaded in the colony.

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