Bahar Dutt on ‘Shared Spaces’: Human beings are not outside nature

In India, wildlife exists in a sea of humanity. Still, their stories are often told as if human beings are outside nature, says award-winning environmental journalist Bahar Dutt, who believes this worldview stems from a Western cultural lens. It is this narrative that Shared Spaces , a six-part documentary series hosted by Bahar and filmed by her partner, Emmy-nominated wildlife filmmaker Vijay Bedi, deliberately subverts. “We tried to step away from the typical natural history format: blue-chip films being produced across the globe, which showcase animals living in beautiful forests,” says Vijay about the series, which is instead “told in the larger context of human-impacted wild spaces.”