'I wanted to link ecology with religion'
Elsie Gabriel, 50
Founder of Young Environmentalist Programme Trust
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Powai-based environmentalist Elsie Gabriel, who grew up in the campus of the Irish Christian Brothers in Kolkata where her parents were teachers, remembers attending mass every morning, and how particular the family would be about observing the 40-day Lent, giving up non-vegetarian food entirely. "I began fasting when I was just six years old," she recalls. During her college years, Gabriel would abstain from eating rice and white bread.