Conservation| Climate Maladaptation| Migration| Risk| Care| Assistant Prof. in Social Anthropology @UCLRDR | @AXAResearchFund Fellow | Formerly @LSEanthropology
London. Delhi. Sundarbans
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Community kitchens in #Sundarbans have been serving not just the need for food but have become a physical space to deal with collective loss & trauma after repeated cyclones.
@MahuaMoitra @derekobrienmp @AITCofficial pls support orgs. running such spaces for communal healing.
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Bengal Famine: 80 years on, the last-remaining survivors live forgotten in rural India, with traumatic memories of scarcity & floods
I travelled to the Sundarbans to report on how the famine changed kitchens & the lives of girls & women in rural Bengal:
indianexpress.com/article/lo…
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Law Clinic is beyond proud that threatened climatedefender Ritwick Dutta @lifeindia2016 lectures on our Transnational Enviro law +ClinicalLegalEducation module for #climatejustice in #Sundarbans @wbnujskolkata @KCL_Law @TLIKings @KMhumanrights @MMehtta @emilymbarritt @SueWillman
CliDEF has launched a new report and photo essay, “The Dangerous Lives of Climate Defenders,” during Climate Week in New York to show the extraordinary climate defenders facing grave legal risks in every region in world
climatelegaldefense.org/news…
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Cyclone, heatwaves and the monsoon in one frame.
#CycloneRemal in the Bay of Bengal, heatwaves over India and Pakistan, and the southwest monsoon picking up its pace.
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We are happy to invite you to a webinar on looking at climate loss and damage in Indian Sundarbans through the lens of fishers, farmers, federations, NGOs, bureaucrats & academics. Link:
us06web.zoom.us/j/8275736189…
Meeting ID: 827 5736 1894 Passcode: 264567
@grassandgreens
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Spking at @publiclawproject conference re communities in #Sundarbans working with @kcllegalclinic to seek reparations for #climatecrisis collaborating w @wbnujskolkata @KMhumanrights @MMehtta @emilymbarritt here’s a fundraiser to support their self-help
justgiving.com/crowdfunding/…
The environment has nobody to speak for it, that is why it matters that people and orgs can bring challenges through environmental judicial review.
Gillian Lobo @ClientEarth tells #JRTrends23 with Natasha Maugueret @BindmansLLP, @SueWillman @dpg_law & PLP's @ilinca_tuvene
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@MMehtta and Renny Thomas will discuss the implications of ecologies of care with volume editors Ambika Aiyadurai, Arka Chattopadhyay and Nishaant Choksi. The session will be moderated by @DalitCulture.
@UCLIRDR @iiserbhopal @IiserMohali.
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In this ethnographic study of climate change and its impacts on Bangladesh, @CameliaDewan offers a vitally important corrective to simplistic narratives of global warming. 1/n
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With tiger widows holding the death certificates of husbands killed fishing in tigerreserve, denied compensation @DishaEarth reps them in litigation @SueWillman w @wbnujskolkata students @rv_shashank @akashtypes #Sundarbans #climatechange
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What is the burden of #ClimateCrisis on #women living in #Bangladesh's #Sundarbans? For @BehanBox, I write on the #burden of #unpaidcare & #healthchallenges borne by women. Edited by Malini Nair, and produced by @bhanupriya_rao
behanbox.com/2023/07/07/1037…
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Our Sundarbans Climate Justice Project co-collaborator @KMhumanrights @DoughtyStIntl is doing sponsored cycle for Tiger Widows of Lahiripur, Sundarbans, India gofund.me/c9892813 @kcllegalclinic #Sundarbans @emilymbarritt #ClimateEmergency #globalsouth @apmehrotra @MMehtta
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Hi! I spent the last 13 months writing stories across India's west coast - from port development and fish famine to chemical pollution to water scarcity to diversion - with the underlying theme of prioritization of corporate interests over communities and water ecosystems.#THREAD
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In the #Bengal #Delta, every #pond, or pukur, has stories to tell — of waterbirds and #wetland plants, of family memory, colonialist history, and #climatechange. My piece on ponds, #partition, and placemaking has been published in @PlacesJournal.
placesjournal.org/article/po…
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Ritwick Dutta is absolutely incredible. For years, he's been the strongest defender of India's ecological security & those dependent on it, both wildlife and people, in our courts of law. The govt is gravely mistaken if they think they can deter him by such intimidation tactics.
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Failing to understand the allegation here. No one should criticise coal in India?! Didn't Central Electricity Authority call for closure of old thermal plants!
Litigation is meant to be a tool. That is by design. Why not make counter arguments during hearing? Why FCRA route?
CBI files an FIR against lawyer Ritwick Dutta for FCRA violations in filing cases against coal projects. Ritwick is the founder of Legal Initiative for Forest and Environment (LIFE)
@lifeindia2016 @CBIHeadquarters
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Some history Trivia on Project Tiger. A🧵
Though the Project was launched today, 50 yrs ago, the actual beginning was a year earlier. In 1972, an 11-member 'task force' constituted by Indira Gandhi submitted its report. They thought of a title for their report. They called it 👇
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Tomorrow I will give a talk via Zoom about my ongoing work on water & religion in the #Sundarbans as a part of @KingsIndiaInst's seminar series on "Archipelagic Indias." Thankful to to Professor @ananya_jahanara for this invitation & looking forward!
kcl.ac.uk/events/the-pull-of…
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Changing Coastlines
This #documentary is now finished after three months of labour. It largely focuses on how small-scale fishers in #WestBengal's East Midnapore are affected by #climatechange and #development initiatives. #Watch and share your feedback: youtu.be/1b6Lh6IV9Uc – at New Delhi, India
