Dejna Daulagupu

food | jhum | land | women | Eastern Himalayas 🌾💫

[Dejna Daulagupu @DejDejna]

Looking forward to amazing applications for this year's edition of Roots and Bridges. Excited for July.

[Anand Vasu @anandvasu]

The saddest thing about AI writing is that readers assume an em dash is the product of such an engine. It’s one of the most beautiful bits of punctuation and there are times when it is the only elegant solution. Some of us have been using it — and been guilty of overusing it — for decades now.

#AI #writing #emdash

[donald_takhell @donaldtakhell]

(Imp & Interesting read)

@RaghuPrat spills tea on 200 years of colonial explorations in the Brahmaputra valley via mosquitoes, tigers, civet and a tourist.

https://t.co/IXSi3x1OZt

[Dejna Daulagupu @DejDejna]

An essay based on my fieldwork in Umrangso that began in 2020. The stories of loss and extraction emerging out of the town were many even then. Today the situation is substantially worse. If you wish to take a look, please find my chapter in the new NESRC publication.

[Dejna Daulagupu @DejDejna]

https://t.co/YkxzKz6xWB

[Dejna Daulagupu @DejDejna]

It is amazing how Zubeen da's rebellious voice comforted all who felt alien, excluded and unsure in this crazy city.

As I listen to his famous Dimasa song 'Ning ani lugu gibi', I pray - may his gentle heart continue to inspire solidarity and courage always 🤍

[Dejna Daulagupu @DejDejna]

Had the best time connecting with my amazing peers from so many different pockets of the Eastern Himalayas. Here's to a life long journey of solidarity and friendship forged at this workshop by Zubaan and HBS ❤️

[Heinrich Böll Stiftung New Delhi @boell_India]

🌿✊ The GreeNE Feminist Lab (8–12 Sept) is on at Dibrugarh University, hosted by @ZubaanBooks with support of @boell_India
A young cohort from across Northeast India gathers to explore the links between gender, ecology & storytelling.
Here’s a day-by-day thread 🧵

[Dejna Daulagupu @DejDejna]

The hardness of a people is a direct reflection of the hostility of their environment that necessitates such defenses. So when one meets a soft person one better know that they come from a place kind to them.

It's those who think softness is weakness that need rehabilitation.

[Dejna Daulagupu @DejDejna]

@Rituparna37 @GurpinderLalli Exciting news. Congratulations Professor !

[Dejna Daulagupu @DejDejna]

https://t.co/wTR5dm66N6

9000 bighas of tribal land stolen in a Sixth Schedule district in a gross violation for all that the provision stands for. Give us our ancestral lands back!

[Dejna Daulagupu @DejDejna]

@Loner3006 The stews are made of seasonal leafs and veggies boiled with khari (alkali) water. In Dimasa, we call it khari. Then the rest are either boiled or fried bitters with fresh herbs on the side.

[Dejna Daulagupu @DejDejna]

Something on the lessons that a river as old as time may teach us if we let it -

[joel rodrigues @rodriguesjoel0]

This podcast discussing @DollyKikon's seminal article, Dirty food: racism and casteism in India, explains lucidly how caste, tribe, food, and discrimination come together in India. Do listen,
https://t.co/MFcyGNAbXA

[Raysha Alvir @RayshaAlvir]

Wrote an article in The Arunachal Times on the Idu Mishmi community's cultural conservation model, a resistance to the state enclosure of Indigenous land.
https://t.co/HAW1YDllDh

[The Arunachal Times @arunachaltimes_]

It is the second day of the #protest in Begging village near the survey camp of the 11,000 MW #SiangUpperMultipurposeProject (#SUMP) in Siang district, against the deployment of #CentralArmedPoliceForces stationed in the region to facilitate survey work for the mega hydro project. Video: Marina Dai

[Ebo Mili @Ebo_Mili_Linggi]

Take your time out and partcipate. Via media, post or physical presence. Don’t let these greedy bastards, money minded win. 11500MW dam is no joke. 2880 MW Dibang dam is the record holder, imagine the consequence of 11500MW?

[Dejna Daulagupu @DejDejna]

Hostile turn of things in Siang. This must be revoked

[The Arunachal Times @arunachaltimes_]

Villagers opposed to the 11,000 MW #SiangUpperMultipurposeProject are protesting the deployment of #armedpersonnel by the state to facilitate construction of the mega project in Upper Siang and Siang districts.

[Raysha Alvir @RayshaAlvir]

Our co-authored book is now available on Amazon! Excited to share this journey with you. Grab your copy and dive in.
https://t.co/tBE42OBZRH

[donald_takhell @donaldtakhell]

"Despite a long-standing culture of daily commuting from villages, Imphal lacks a functional public transport system". I write for @down2earthindia for their ongoing series 'How India Moves'