soas.ac.uk/study/student-… On Ambedkar Jayanti, I'm happy to announce the Beena Sondhi Scholarship for an LLM in Human Rights, Conflict and Justice SOAS University of London Instituted in memory of my late mother who passed away in 1986 , it covers the entire tuition fee and is open for 2025-26

Kuffir Da is co-founder of Round Table India. His work revolutionized anti-caste knowledge production and gave voice to countless people from marginalized communities. He is now bedridden after a stroke and needs urgent support. Please support and amplify.

Call for Submissions | Caste in India is not just cultural, it is material. It shapes access to land, water, housing, sanitation, and protection from climate disasters. Dalit and Adivasi communities, already pushed to the margins, are among the most affected by climate change.

Protest against the Siang Upper Hydro Project continues as the govt has forcefully deployed Central Armed Police Forces in two Siang districts, despite persistent opposition from local people against the construction of the 11,000 MW hydroelectric dam. #Arunachal VC: Pasu Diino

🦜 "Now, everyone is afraid to speak about the Great Nicobar Project," says ornithologist Asad Rahmani. Once a member of the National Board for Wildlife, Rahmani warns that the project threatens rare species and indigenous tribes. scroll.in/article/108205…

Special issue on Materializing #Land edited by Rachel Sturman is #CSSAME Duke University Press is soon forthcoming and here is my epilogue: the authors are pushing the land question in new directions shorturl.at/lQy9Y read on: read.dukeupress.edu/cssaame/advanc…

Reflecting on the Journey Forward. The closing speech on behalf of the Naga Delegation at the Pitt Rivers Museum week long deliberations on repatriation of Naga ancestral remains from Oxford University.

Delighted to announce the STS-IN Winter School, 12-14 Dec, NCR. Info and application details. stsin.org/sts-in-winter-…

An important collaborative piece on sustainable sustenance. CKL reminded me of my own childhood foraging with my grandmother for ferns 🙂 #food #foraging #anthropology sapiens.org/culture/indige…

There were workers sheds downstream of the hydropower project and no one cared to pay attention to shift them to a safe zone before the monsoons... #hydropower #monsoon #Disaster hindi.news18.com/news/himachal-…

Just out, my research work I've been working on for the last few years. "Living in the Naga life-world: Indigeneity, masculinity & the consumption of pig testicles in NE India" tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

We invite applications to “When the Land Remembers”, a writing residency that brings together indigenous women from across Nepal to reflect, remember, and reimagine their relationship with land, water, forest, and home. English and Nepali forms here - linktr.ee/thepomelo

Take some time to watch our film, where Kritika Pant brewed magic into our travel across 200 km in bengal & Sikkim. What is it like to live in the shadow of glacial lakes and hydropower projects? Especially, when the two are a bad combo. Pulitzer Center scroll.in/video/1084817/…

“Discovering Sacred Lands” Project discoveringsacredlands.space is a Mutanchi Rongkup community-based project to bring together Indigenous youths with Knowledge Keepers encouraging them to seek their sacred connection to the landscape and engage with their ancestral roots.

Here’s Arvind Kumar’s brilliant article! Indigeneity, caste, tribe and the limitations of decolonial thought in South Asian socio‐legal studies: The need for a decolonial–debrahmanical approach - KUMAR - Journal of Law and Society - Wiley Online Library onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jo…

If you (or someone you know) is applying to PhD programs in anthro, geog, STS with a focus on community-based work, check out the Community Research & Action program in my dept at Vanderbilt. Interested in working with students on coastal & heat-related projects. Email with ?s.

india.mongabay.com/2025/08/anothe… #DHARALI_DISASTER On Aug 5, a flash flood buried Dharali village in Uttarakhand under 40–60 ft of sediment. Several remain missing. Do read my Mongabay India article on why this disaster was not natural. -From just 4 buildings in 1996, Dharali grew into

A brilliant event at ⁦Nagaland University⁩ with ⁦Tiatoshi Jamir⁩ Ecologies of Care at ⁦Center for South Asian Studies, UC Santa Cruz⁩ is a 3 year initiative centering Indigenous ecology & pedagogy. Nagaland University hosts workshop on ‘Ecologies of care’ : easternmirrornagaland.com/nagaland-unive… easternmirrornagaland.com/nagaland-unive…

Why does #green_development so often target low-value rural areas with weak land tenure in Global South? My Political Geography article argues that these agendas are forms of #green_colonialism.  sciencedirect.com/science/articl… #ClimateJustice #NbS #IndigenousKnowledge #globalSouth