I took this picture in #Kachchh, #Gujarat in 2008, just when the wind turbines started dotting the landscape, some of them overlooking this pond from which women were collecting #water. Couldn't think of a better image than this to begin my talk with today.
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How are traditional #water harvesting systems in #India entangled with questions of postcolonial modernity & social injustice? I address this in my keynote at the International Congress on #Science, #Technology and #Development at the University of Taubate, 24th October.
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I attended my first @SammyObeid live stand up show this evening at #Amsterdam. I wanted his signature and I had only one thing in my bag that could be used for signing. A copy of David Graeber's Pirate Enlightenment. In many ways an ideal tribute to Graeber.

If you are in the #Netherlands, try not to miss Sundar Sarukkai"s talk on #Science and the #Decolonial Imagination on the 15th of July at 15:30 P.M. The event is, unfortunately, in-person. The registration link 👇🏿
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The week-long #PhD Course on #Decolonising #Science is taking place between the 14th to 18th July this year in #Delft. Join us for an intense week of peer dialogue and critical discussions on "doing science" in academic research.

Looking forward to presenting alongside a stellar group of scholars on rethinking #water in the #desert at @TUdelft. I will be talking about #Desalination and the Politics of Aridity in Kachchh in #Gujarat.
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Can we really #Decolonise #Science? I attempt to engage with this question in my TEDx talk on the 18th of January at the Omnia Conference Centre at @w-u-r.bsky.social. I will be talking about the need for science to act as a bridge between different #knowledge traditions.

This New Year, taking inspiration from this golden orb-web spider, and its relentless effort to weave this beautiful web. There is so much inspiration to take from "small things". Each and every home of the vulnerable needs to be protected.

On a songthaew (pick up truck) in #Bangkok, an old passenger's hands shook when she paid her fare to the conductor. She noticed, and proceeded to massage the passengers palms & her arms. It is hard not to celebrate these moving acts of everyday care between strangers in a city.

A beautiful moment, when #Fatoumata Diawara paid homage to Nina Simone last night at the PAARD in #DenHaag. A surreal communion between two incredible artists, a celebration of black power.

I really enjoyed delivering a talk on the material politics of #water at the Development Research Seminar at Utrecht University's #Geography Department. It focused on my research on water purifiers in #India but related it to contemporary debates in #urban water.

It arrived today by post and I cannot wait to immerse myself in this book. Another moving offering from Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Whenever I told my dad he should quit smoking as he was now in his 70s, he used to retort, "people living in #Delhi shouldn't lecture others on respiratory health". I couldn't help but remember this when I saw this map today. #DelhiAirPollution

India's first female anthropologist, Irawati Karve, was a PhD student under the Nazi anthropologist Eugene Fischer in the 1920s. She disputed his claims of white supremacy based on skull shape with her research showing there was no correlation. Cannot wait to read this book!

Join me for an upcoming webinar on mapping marginalisation in smallholder #irrigation, as part of the webinar series #WateringtheMargins. Register here➡️ tinyurl.com/yc6e7nf7