Saswatik Tripathy is a senior project manager at the Foundation for Ecological Security. He is currently based in Keonjhar. He has a postgraduate degree in Development Management from DHAN Academy. Saswatik has published 19 papers on agriculture, rural, and tribal development in several international journals. He is also the author of two published books titled They are Happy, based on a tribe of India, and Homa Farming of Brinjal, about a special type of organic farming.