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Shrishtee Bajpai
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Writer, Researcher, Activist (Post-development, alternatives, governance, rights of nature ) and my head is a veritable cauldron
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Shrishtee Bajpai, from Global Tapestry of Alternatives,reveals how local struggles for self-determination connect across cultures and what is being done to weave a 'pluriverse' of possibilities rooted in social and ecological justice www.populationbalance.org/podcast/shri...
September 17, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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🌊 Fourth Indus River walk, 28th-31st August 2025

The fourth Indus River walk by Kalpavriksh and Snow Leopard Conservancy India trust was hosted on the banks of river Indus close to Shaara village where the team camped for 3 nights.
Fourth Indus River walk, 28th-31st August 2025 The fourth Indus River walk by Kalpavriksh and Snow Leopard Conservancy India trust was hosted on the banks of river Indus close to Shaara village where the team camped for 3 nights. The group trekked to Shaang valley where they learned about the intrinsic connection of snow leopards and other trans himalayan wildlife with rivers. The walk was filled with creative activities such as river meditations, nature writing, birding, story telling, painting and understanding interdependence of riverine communities including humans and more than humans and lots of singing along the Singee Khababs. The walk was joined by students of Ladakh university, members of Tar village, and members of KV and SLC-IT. This year's walk was a constant reminder of how climate change is impacting river ecology, and transforming our ecosystems at an accelerated and drastic rate. Fourth Indus River walk, 28th-31st August 2025 The fourth Indus River walk by Kalpavriksh and Snow Leopard Conservancy India trust was hosted on the banks of river Indus close to Shaara village where the team camped for 3 nights. The group trekked to Shaang valley where they learned about the intrinsic connection of snow leopards and other trans himalayan wildlife with rivers. The walk was filled with creative activities such as river meditations, nature writing, birding, story telling, painting and understanding interdependence of riverine communities including humans and more than humans and lots of singing along the Singee Khababs. The walk was joined by students of Ladakh university, members of Tar village, and members of KV and SLC-IT. This year's walk was a constant reminder of how climate change is impacting river ecology, and transforming our ecosystems at an accelerated and drastic rate. Fourth Indus River walk, 28th-31st August 2025 The fourth Indus River walk by Kalpavriksh and Snow Leopard Conservancy India trust was hosted on the banks of river Indus close to Shaara village where the team camped for 3 nights. The group trekked to Shaang valley where they learned about the intrinsic connection of snow leopards and other trans himalayan wildlife with rivers. The walk was filled with creative activities such as river meditations, nature writing, birding, story telling, painting and understanding interdependence of riverine communities including humans and more than humans and lots of singing along the Singee Khababs. The walk was joined by students of Ladakh university, members of Tar village, and members of KV and SLC-IT. This year's walk was a constant reminder of how climate change is impacting river ecology, and transforming our ecosystems at an accelerated and drastic rate. Fourth Indus River walk, 28th-31st August 2025 The fourth Indus River walk by Kalpavriksh and Snow Leopard Conservancy India trust was hosted on the banks of river Indus close to Shaara village where the team camped for 3 nights. The group trekked to Shaang valley where they learned about the intrinsic connection of snow leopards and other trans himalayan wildlife with rivers. The walk was filled with creative activities such as river meditations, nature writing, birding, story telling, painting and understanding interdependence of riverine communities including humans and more than humans and lots of singing along the Singee Khababs. The walk was joined by students of Ladakh university, members of Tar village, and members of KV and SLC-IT. This year's walk was a constant reminder of how climate change is impacting river ecology, and transforming our ecosystems at an accelerated and drastic rate.
September 18, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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▶️ ICYMI: Watch the latest seminar from our Strengthening Democracy: A Research-Practice Exchange series, Expanding the Demos: How Do Nonhumans Have Political Agency?
with Lakshmi Venugopal and @shrishteebajpai.bsky.social

📺 Watch the recording here: youtube.com/watch?v=eM9H3LzkpUw&feature=youtu.be
September 2, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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River Parliament: A Sacred Confluence Speaks Out - a meeting of South Asian rivers, sharing plight, strategising how to be free - darknlight.com/projects/sho... @robmacfarlane16.bsky.social @shrishteebajpai.bsky.social
The River Parliament: A Sacred Confluence Speaks Out - Dark 'n' Light
Ashish Kothari shares his report from a unique gathering, the first in recent history, a meeting of South Asia’s rivers. This short story explores the trials and tribulations of the rivers, shedding l...
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July 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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What can #indigenous communities contribute to overcoming the global polycrisis? Their struggles and their ways of living and organizing provide a roadmap for the future, as @shrishteebajpai.bsky.social argues: berlinergazette.de/autonomy-for... #PluriverseOfPeace
Autonomy for the Majority of the World! Community Struggles for Self-Governance in the Global South · BG · berlinergazette.de · EN|DE
Today it is really important to ask what indigenous communities can contribute to overcoming our global moment of polycrisis. The struggles of these communities against state and corporate violence an...
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April 16, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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Everyday ritual of seeking inspiration from nature to write!

#writing #naturewriting #poems
March 26, 2025 at 6:46 AM
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The law of the land is walk gently, slowly, and being awe struck at everything around us. Learning from yellow throated longclaw 😀
March 18, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Lovers singing a song ❤️
March 2, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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What opens up in us when we are seen by eyes that are not just human. What sort of infinite is opened? One begins to dissolve in fluid, translucent and another shape of awareness.
From one of the spectacular evenings of quiet drizzle by grey clouds, cicada chorus, sharp winds, shy full moon.
February 24, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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We would like to invite you to the launch of ‘We Value our Traditional Governance Systems’, on 30 January 2025, 4 pm - 5.30 pm, a declaration by several Adivasi and other traditional communities in India.
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January 25, 2025 at 5:16 AM
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Join us tomorrow!
ecodemocracy.bsky.social Radical Ecological Democracy (RED) @ecodemocracy.bsky.social · Jan 16
Join us as we explore alternatives to the dominant, ecologically destructive industrial model of fast fashion.

How can we bring about cultural shifts by reimagining beauty as a form of art and fashion as a tool for creative expression and liberation?

Register here: bit.ly/RED-fashion-webinar
January 22, 2025 at 5:39 AM
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Join us for our 4th episode with wonderful
@SumanaSiliguri
on 27th Jan, 1PM GMT. Registration link globaltapestryofalternatives.org/events:2024_...
January 20, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Earthy Governance and Inter-Species Justice-looking forward to this conversation with TACC along with @ashishkothari.bsky.social . We hope to explore dimensions of this article that we wrote news.mongabay.com/2024/10/if-a...
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January 8, 2025 at 5:44 AM
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Nothing like spending a winter morning in dry deciduous forests looking for tigress and her cubs and eventually finding them in all their playful glory. No better way to start the new year with the most precious humans and non-humans.
#NewYear2025 #wildlife #NewYear #photography
December 31, 2024 at 10:11 AM
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2024 has been a difficult year for many communities across the world. GTA continues to work in weaving a world (many worlds) of solidarity, care and conviviality. Here is a review of our activities
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December 30, 2024 at 3:53 AM
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Last blog post of this year - "Like a vanishing dewdrop"- Ikkyu, Tagore and Indus River . Reflections from many streams! Hope you enjoy reading.

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#nature #environment #naturewriting #rivers #philosophy
“Like a vanishing dewdrop”
Ikkyu, Tagore, and Indus
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December 20, 2024 at 6:28 AM
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KV members at @Pagdandiworld with Dr. Asad Rahmani at launch of his new book Living with Birds
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December 19, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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Major new research finds “shockingly” fast changes to flows of Earth’s c. 3 million rivers, mapped across 35 years.

“Rivers are dynamic and beautiful beasts & humans should never take them for granted or squander the resources they provide us with.” (Hannah Cloke)
www.cnn.com/2024/12/12/c...
Scientists mapped the world’s rivers over 35 years. They found shocking changes | CNN
The flow of water through the planet’s nearly 3 million rivers is changing rapidly, with potentially drastic implications for everything from drinking water supplies to flood risks, according to a new...
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December 13, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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Lovely to see 3 wolves today at Kadbanwadi, Maharashtra, this one with what seems to be a Chinkara (Indian gazelle) bone. @shrishteebajpai.bsky.social @arnazk.bsky.social
December 13, 2024 at 3:47 PM
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Just looking through darkness for some light every moment, everyday!
December 11, 2024 at 7:32 AM
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The issue with large scale solar and generally with false solutions to the crises!
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Solar power looms large over the snow leopards of Spiti
In October, India surpassed 200 GW of renewable energy capacity, accounting for 46.3% of the country’s electricity generation. It marks a significant milestone, which pushes the world’s third-largest ...
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December 11, 2024 at 6:04 AM
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In the supermarket of democracy, choice is an illusion. Is there a real alternative? How do we go beyond Trump, Modi, Putin, Macron etc, so-called democratic leaders, towards real people power? scroll.in/article/1075...
In the supermarket of democracy, choice is an illusion. Is there a real alternative?
Too many decades have been lost to the myth that liberal democracies will deliver.
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December 8, 2024 at 6:30 AM
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In the supermarket of democracy, choice is an illusion. Is there a real alternative?
Too many decades have been lost to the myth that liberal democracies will deliver.
scroll.in
December 8, 2024 at 7:02 AM
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Spent some beautiful days last week walking, birding, and learning in one of the most precious landscapes, Kachchh. Possibly one of its kind in the whole world. Photos from a landscape which is being proposed for a so -called large scale ‘green’ energy project.
#nature #naturephotography
December 6, 2024 at 7:41 AM
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An evening bloomed
As the wasp struggled
and the grasshopper counted its last
while a spectator marvelled!
Kutch, Gujarat
December 5, 2024 at 6:05 AM