President Biden is welcoming Prime Minister Narendra Modi of India to the White House this week. They want to show the world that the two largest democracies are strengthening their alliance. That’s why today I want to introduce you to Ritwick Dutta, an environmental lawyer who is using India’s democratic institutions to protect people and forests, running afoul of his government. At 49, Dutta has worked on more than 1,300 environmental cases, he told me. Since he became a lawyer some two decades ago, his philosophy has been to bring as many cases as possible at once.

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Persons: Biden, Narendra Modi, Ritwick Dutta, He’s, Modi, Dutta Locations: India