On the day we speak to editor and environmentalist Bittu Sahgal, a news article reports an uncanny development in Navi Mumbai. Thanks in great measure to the haphazard reclamation for infrastructure projects, five villages in the region have been experiencing flooding with every high tide. "While we have been working in a quiet way for 40 years, never has the message of Sanctuary been more relevant than today," he says, as if joining the dots between the report and the decision to host Sanctuary Nature Foundations's first-ever fundraiser.

Elaborating on the organisations's objective to expand its projects for the environment and scale up its impact, he says, "We may have been the people who have put the message out, but we are not solely responsible for nor do we have the strength to achieve the end. And what do we want? An India whose rivers are clean, whose forests are rich, and whose farmers are happy. So irrespective of who you are — politician, businessman, bureaucrat or student — we need you all."