She has been a Fellow at the Indian Institute of Advanced Studies, Shimla and worked on a book titled “ Damuda: Sacred Water” on environment losses and conflicts in the upper Damodar Valley. She has been an initiative lead with Jaladarsha, where she primarily set up a platform of artists, researchers and community process workers primarily highlighting the issues of water security and governance in Kolkata.

At Eco Hive, Sayantoni a Founding Director works on shaping programmes for the organisation, designing core workshops and facilitation to build grassroot leadership with a special focus  on water, wetlands and the Sundarbans and other cross cutting working on environment and education. 

Her current research preoccupations are around rhythms and environmental placemaking.

Koustabh has been a self taught painter since 2010 working not only working on illustrations, murals, live art shows, and exhibitions but he also built a multi disciplinary street art collective called “Abracadabra” engaged with street art. He specializes in bringing forth different kinds of art forms, music, painting, digital art forms, theatre and performance into community arts practice. 

As a lead artist and curator at Jaladarsha, Koustabh produced songs and art works and curated for several community arts festivals “Flows Beyond Barriers”, “Roots and Rights”, “Towards Sustainable Flows”, “Jalarangi” A movement from the Sea”, “Ripples: Intergenerational Dialogues” with Jaladarsha.His work brings an artist’s perspective to projects around water, wetlands and ecological change, using visual narratives to make complex environmental stories tangible, engaging and accessible.

At Eco Hive, Koustabh also a Founding Director works across environmental documentation, research and creative communication, and using art as a medium for community healing and reflection in workhops.