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...
Shrishtee Bajpai
@shrishteebajpai.bsky.social
Writer, Researcher, Activist (Post-development, alternatives, governance, rights of nature ) and my head is a veritable cauldron
🌊 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.
▶️ 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
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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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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The law of the land is walk gently, slowly, and being awe struck at everything around us. Learning from yellow throated longclaw 😀
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.
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. Register us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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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
Join us for our 4th episode with wonderful @SumanaSiliguri on 27th Jan, 1PM GMT. Registration link globaltapestryofalternatives.org/events:2024_...
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... Register here:https://evo.re/tacc
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
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 globaltapestryofalternatives.org/events:updat...
Last blog post of this year - "Like a vanishing dewdrop"- Ikkyu, Tagore and Indus River . Reflections from many streams! Hope you enjoy reading. medium.com/@shrishtee/l... #nature #environment #naturewriting #rivers #philosophy
“Like a vanishing dewdrop”
Ikkyu, Tagore, and Indus
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KV members at @Pagdandiworld with Dr. Asad Rahmani at launch of his new book Living with Birds @ashishkothari.bsky.social
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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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
Just looking through darkness for some light every moment, everyday!
The issue with large scale solar and generally with false solutions to the crises! india.mongabay.com/2024/12/sola...
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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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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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
An evening bloomed As the wasp struggled and the grasshopper counted its last while a spectator marvelled! Kutch, Gujarat
Don't rush! Find a moment of joy looking at hundreds of cranes passing through a waning crescent! Morning at Chari-Dhand in Kachchh, Gujarat. #nature #naturephotography
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Gifts from the Sentient Forest: A Conversation with Åsa Andersson Martti, Francis Joy and John C. Ryan
Gifts from the Sentient Forest: A Conversation with Åsa Andersson Martti, Francis Joy and John C. Ryan About the episode In the third episode of our More than Human webinar series, Åsa Andersson Ma...
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Excited to host our third episode and we will be joined by Åsa, Francis, and John. They will share about the different ways of communicating with the forests, speaking from the Sámi tribe's traditions as well as from scientific perspectives of forest intelligence and sentience.
Excited to host our third episode and we will be joined by Åsa, Francis, and John. They will share about the different ways of communicating with the forests, speaking from the Sámi tribe's traditions as well as from scientific perspectives of forest intelligence and sentience.
The Indian desert gerbil kept popping out of tiny burrows, as we walked along the ancient city of Dholavira, the Harappan civilisation's southern centre that was inhabited for the period between 3000-1500 BCE.