"Every house is like a graveyard" A village falls silent after the shocking death of 8 children in a firecracker explosion in a godown in Hosur, Tamil Nadu These young Dalit boys, all close friends had signed up to work here hoping to pay off family loans and fill college fees.

UNDER OBSERVATION AT LEH HOSPITAL I'm in very good care with best doctors n nurses at Leh's SNM hospital. One leg ends, new one begins. From today women's groups start their fast, next it's youth bodies, then monks & nuns, then the elderly n so on... #SaveLadakh

KYA HUA TERA WAADA !? Admiring my beautiful little village Uleytokpo... and feeling very sad for our nomadic pashmina herders, who are not as lucky & are losing their land to industrial plants and Chinese incursion. To add insult to injury Amit Shah ji recently said not even an

TROLLS & HOME MINISTRY... I wonder if there's a relation...!!! #SaveLadakh #SaveHimalayas #SaveGlaciers #6thSchedule #VikasKeNaamVinash #SupportSonamWangchuk

Celebrating the nature, culture and community of #Lakshadweep! The #lagoonfest on Agatti Island saw the active participation of local communities, government departments and village institutions, fostering a sense of collective action & celebration of #localculture and #cuisine!

ALL food systems are violent. Or not. Depending on how you see it, where you stand, what you receive. Whose body does the work? Whose bank balance increases? Why is pain only measured in blood? And not sweat/ tears? Whose land is ravaged for your rice (& mine)? Pls think?

The shift in Tamil Nadu’s fisheries with mechanized techniques has deepened inequalities within fishing communities. In Cuddalore, the introduction of ring-seine nets in the mid-2000s provided a third option between small-scale fishing and mechanized trawling. @janM_borchert 1/n

How did the Zebrafish become the most preferred model organism for biomedical research across the globe? Here’s an interesting podcast that talks about its journey from Ganges to different parts of the world! Do listen! #Science #scicomm #podcast #biology

They gave him a midnight speaking slot past the time when India sleeps. Yet A. Bimol Akoijam roared This MP made sure the voice of #Manipur was heard - in the Parliament and beyond Kind of MP that North East truly deserves

14 different literature review types categorized by method used

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Twenty-five-year-old Moina Khatun cannot remember when she last had a good night’s sleep. “We wake up in the middle of the night to check if the river is inching towards us…the sound of the river and the land erosion never allow us to sleep.” indiaspend.com/assam/why-real…

We are happy to announce the "Writing for Public: A Workshop". If you are an MA/PhD/early career academic looking to learn to write for non-academic publics, this *free* workshop is for you. Apply by 20 Nov 2024 by writing to us at [email protected]

Water flooded a rat-hole mine in the Dima Hasao district of Assam, earlier this month, trapping several miners inside. This incident is one of the biggest mining disasters in Assam, reports Nabarun Guha NEHU india.mongabay.com/2025/01/miners…

Hello all, I am looking for interns to work with me on the Pastoralism, human-animal interactions and more, see details here lnkd.in/gBNctUT2 and write to me if interested.

Final Call for Abstracts #IMC25! I’m thrilled to Co-convene session FS 3.197 on Integrative Approaches to Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development: Interactions Between Tourism Development and Mountain Heritage at the International Mountain Conference 2025 in Innsbruck,

Want to pick up a great book to read on Women’s Day? These are my 5 recommendations - 1) Why Loiter? This book is such an eye-opener on how we perceive and behave in public spaces and how inherently gendered these spaces are. Fantastic for working towards an inclusive world!

We are hiring for multiple roles! Join us in working with coastal communities across India! We’re looking for passionate individuals to join our team in roles that combine fieldwork, research, and community engagement. Click the link below to apply! dakshin.org/opportunities/

The conference focused on themes around tensions, trade-offs and potential sustainable transformations in marine resource management and governance. Our team presented their ongoing action research.

The team participated in a roundtable discussion on the fishmeal and fish oil sector. They contributed insights from Dakshin’s work on ecological, nutritional, social, and economic implications of the sector, and identified leverage points to address some of these implications.