Carpenter turned field researcher
Bengaluru
Joined October 2014
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When Ameer survived a boat capsize at Muthalapozhi harbour, the hospital healed his injuries. His fear of returning to the sea was something else entirely—and his family turned elsewhere for that. In coastal Thiruvananthapuram, researcher Nisar Kannangara encountered communities navigating formal healthcare alongside traditional healing and sacred sites. Not as alternatives, but together. This field reflection asks what health systems reach—and what they don't—in communities where climate hazards are reshaping daily life.
Read here: ifcitiescouldspeak.com/medic…
#IfCitiesCouldSpeak #GlobalSouth #Health #ClimateChange #MuthalapozhiThiruvananthapuram #Healthcare
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Along Kerala's Malabar Coast, summer means something specific: headaches that won't go away, sunburn that has become unremarkable, skin conditions passed across generations, livelihoods that can't stop even when the body says otherwise. Researcher Nisar Kannangara spent months in fisherfolk settlements in Kozhikode, Kochi and Thiruvananthapuram, listening to what heat actually does—to bodies, to daily routines, to the decision of whether or not to see a doctor.
Field reflections: ifcitiescouldspeak.com/blogs…
#IfCitiesCouldSpeak #GlobalSouth #Health #ClimateChange #Kozhikode #Kochi #Thiruvananthapuram #Malabar #Heat #FishingCommunities
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Policy debates celebrate rising female labour force participation but are we asking the right questions?
My new paper challenges the U-shaped narrative and shows why context, norms, and aspirations matter.
Read: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
Happy to share a latest photo story blog published on If Cities Could Speak. It reflects on Kumbalangi Nights and the lives of Assamese migrant fisherfolk in Kochi, while exploring the living heritage of the iconic Chinese fishing nets.
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@FAO released the most detailed report ever on the state of marine fish stocks.
Data shows that some of the world’s fisheries are recovering thanks to effective, science-based management.
Browse this interactive map 🎣 fao.org/interactive/2025/glo…
#WorldFisheriesDay
My first book, Inequalities and Interventions: Autonomous Adaptation to Climate Change, co-authored with @kalai_kasa., is expected to be out in May! @nias
Excited to be selected for the Writing Urban India Fellowship (WUI 3.0)! Grateful to @UrbanStudyFdn for this opportunity to explore and write about India's urban landscape. Looking forward to the journey! #WUI3 #WritingUrbanIndia
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I speak to @down2earthindia about the environmental challenges confronting India today: downtoearth.org.in/environme…
Just published with Kalaiarasi Ka sa in the Indian Express
indianexpress.com/article/up…
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Accompanied by lively illustrations of her own, anthropologist Eléonore Rimbault takes us through the ways in which Kerala’s circuses are entangled with India’s history.
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My new book, SPEAKING FOR NATURE: THE ORIGINS OF INDIAN ENVIRONMENTALISM, is out next month. It profiles ten thinkers who, in different but equally compelling ways, anticipated the environmental challenges that face India and the world today. More details below.
In #SpeakingWithNature : The Origins of Indian Environmentalism, author @Ram_Guha challenges the narrative that countries like India are 'too poor to be green' by highlighting ten pioneering thinkers who wrote with deep insight about the dangers of environmental abuse from within an Indian context.
Spanning more than a century of Indian history and decidedly transnational in reference, this deeply researched book offers rich resources for considering the threat of climate change today.
Read More Here: harpercollins.co.in/blog/ann…
Pre-Order now: amzn.to/3TsQNSf
#READWithHarperCollins
Fresh off the press! My chapter on the RSS in Thalassery, Kerala offers a nuanced understanding of the organization's presence in the region. Check it out #RSS #Kerala #Thalassery #ethnography
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'India’s wide geography and demographic diversity cannot be governed by a centralised autocracy...'
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Congratulations to the Secretary, & Director Dr Shailesh Nayak at National Institute of Advanced Studies on being conferred with the Padma Shri 2024 in the field of 'Science & Engineering'.
@DrShaileshNaya1
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published today! my short history of how the 18th-century word ‘terrorism’ became a deadly weapon of a declining empire known as the United States….. johnmenadue.com/that-word-te…
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Ala speaks to Ruchi Chaturvedi, whose book Violence of Democracy, published this year, draws on years of engagement with political violence in north Kerala to think about the forms of violence produced by the very practice of democracy
🎨: @Angrytathunberg
alablog.in/issues/63/democra…
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NIAS credited for their work
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In this @NewBooksNetwork podcast, I talk to @Rituparna37 about my book #migration, #foodsecurity and #development. Listen in if you're interested. Here's the link newbooksnetwork.com/migratio….
@CambridgeUP @RanaAnwesha @qudsiya_Ah @SaniyaPuri007 @MovingonEmpty @NIAS_India
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I never understand why no lit award recognises edited volumes/anthologies. These are almost always the result of a lot of hard work and genius on the part of the volume editor, and often, the publisher too. Anyway, here's our new labour of love, yes, an edited volume❤#YodaPress
