With a heavy heart we express our deepest condolence on death of Adv. Bishwa Ranjan Paramguru. Adv. Paramguru, a young outstanding amongst lawyers marshaled brilliantly in National Green Tribunal (NGT) representing Ramesh Gauns in litigation challenging grant of Environmental Clearance by MOEF&CC to Vedanta Limited Mines at Bicholim Mineral Block I.
Adv. Paramguru died in road "accident" in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha on 10 September 2025. Details surrounding his death are yet to be ascertain.
Adv. Paramguru braved formidable obstacles to get the case admitted to NGT Pune. He followed very high ethical standards are refused to be lured by opposition luring financial offers.
I was amongst those fortunate to have shared time with him in Goa as well as Odisha. His jovial humble nature was rather unusual for the brilliance that he carried over his shoulders. His expressed fears about snakes and the way he expressed them while tracking Goa's mining belt ofter pushed people around us into jiffy.
I often joked about his surname that he is supreme teacher - Paramguru. And he would reply "No sir, I got that surname from my parents, nothing more." After his death I realised that he so neatly bluffed me!
While he was amongst us he set us into high level of comfort and joy, news of his death came as rude shock unleashing sorrowful tears from deepest core of my being.
I share no competent words to describe Adv. Paramguru's contribution to defending Goa's ecology from mining corporate aggression. Few in this world are enigmas and Adv. Paramguru is amongst them.
We have no words to console his school going daughter, young wife, his brother and all those share close affinity and friendship with him over thus loss. May they find courage to move on in life. For those of us who shared close moments in struggle his life remains an experience so deeply inspiring: a boy born with no silver spoon in his mouth could attain position of strength and influence, defending those on margins, upholding Justice in courtrooms, showing that human can remain unflinching, uncompromising in the face of adversaries as mammoth and as dangerous as mining industry.
While we say good bye my friend we leave a taste of what he stood to defend about Goa, it's people, life and economy and ecology:
Press note on Vedanta Bicholim mine https://share.google/RYq0z741zDtGPBj0m
Dr. Sebastian Rodrigues
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