Kaniska singh

PhD Scholar at ADCPS, IIT Bombay
Researching Flood vulnerabilities and exclusion in flood governance in Kosi, Bihar.

[SachT @SachinTiwale]

My op-ed in today’s The Hindu critiques the per capita water supply standard — highlighting its lack of empirical grounding, objective rationale & validity.
https://t.co/b8AuIpn1XV
#WaterPolicy #UrbanPlanning #Sustainability #India #PublicPolicy #Standards

[Aamir Aziz @AamirAzizJmi]

My name is Aamir Aziz. I am a poet.

My poem Sab Yaad Rakha Jayega has been used without my knowledge, consent, credit, or compensation by the internationally celebrated artist Anita Dube.

[Kaniska singh @Kaniskasingh75]

@ScholarshipfPhd English

[Kanthi Swaroop @kanthiswaroop]

My review of Colin McFarlane's Waste and the City is now out in EPW. McFarlane suggests viewing urban sanitation as a networked problem— to rethink sanitation crises as urban crises while holding them in tension with the idea of ‘the right to city-life.’ https://t.co/DUnYcQnjwz

[Kaniska singh @Kaniskasingh75]

@Majuli_Chapori everyday life in the Brahmaputra Valley' on @Jamba_Journal which engages with this question and illustrates the slow ecological transformation of Majuli islands in Assam, Review Link : https://t.co/hRkfLa2UXF…

[Kaniska singh @Kaniskasingh75]

Are disasters only episodic, catastrophic punctuation in a normal society? Or can they also be slow transformation rendered unnoticeable while blending with the everyday confrontations . I review @Majuli_Chapori 's book 'Slow disaster: Political ecology of hazards and everyday

[Steven Forrest @sforrest1]

Great set of talks for our session on flood risk governance at @Needs_conf with Kaniska, Annemargreet and Mahmood #Needs2023

[Amitav Ghosh @GhoshAmitav]

Over the last ten years the Indian govt made many grandiose claims about its environmental record. But it was all greenwashing. In reality India "ranked last in the world i.e. 180 out of 180 countries on the 2022 Environmental Performance Index (EPI)." The actual record is well summarized here: https://t.co/3mS6wQ099D

[Dhruv Rathee @dhruv_rathee]

Agreed

[Kaniska singh @Kaniskasingh75]

@eleonor_marcus Hi Eleonor, currently reading your book and loving it. Your book is speaking to my PhD project. I am glad I found this book.

[Kaniska singh @Kaniskasingh75]

@watercultech Count me in, too. I work on floods in the Kosi River plain in the Supaul district.

[The Society for Social Studies of Science @4sWeb]

In this #Backchannels @Kaniskasingh75 explores the complexities of the relationship between flood control technologies and the local communities along the Kosi River, which meanders through Tibet, Nepal, and India. https://t.co/F9nfi58QLU

[Kaniska singh @Kaniskasingh75]

@AnjaOnly @shashank_deora @4sWeb Hello Anja, thanks for reading the blog. This is my first writing on the ambivalence around engineering structures. But I am intrigued with the contemporary local politics around these structures and would like to engage with it further. Would appreciate your inputs on this. :)

[Srishti Choudhary @Srish__T]

As North India faces one of its worst floods, reminded of this piece I wrote in 2019. Words by late @yamunajiye: “Flood is a natural phenomenon, but we converted it into a disaster. Let the rivers flow." Read ⬇️

#DelhiFloods #Punjab #Haryana
https://t.co/5lIhGeAcUv

[Kaniska singh @Kaniskasingh75]

@shireenazam @anisarfa_ check this out !!

[Kaniska singh @Kaniskasingh75]

@schipper_lisa Thanks for pointing this out, Prof, Lisa. It was only today that I wrote that the anxieties around climate change, both Real and constructed, have overshadowed small-scale disasters rooted in everyday experiences of living for people at the margins.

[Ajmal Khan A T @ajmalkhanat]

I write about climate change and caste in today’s @IndianExpress . Thank you @surajyengde for helping me to think and publishing this.

https://t.co/avW9Ctuyv8

[Kaniska singh @Kaniskasingh75]

@phelima @theAAG This sounds similar to my ongoing PhD work, Dr. Felima. Will it be available online?

[Ayesha Tandon @AyeshaTandon]

📢The Global South Climate Database is live!

After months of work, I am SO excited to share this resource!

Please use this free, searchable database of climate experts from the global south to help elevate under-represented voices. #GSCD

https://t.co/noWEKQKnq1

🧵 1/n

[Decolonising Geography @DecoloniseGeog]

***NEW POST***
In part two of his writings on decolonised water and the Pakistan floods, @Daanibhai sets out how a decolonised approach would seek to mitigate flooding #geographyteacher #decolonisegeography https://t.co/gsiNAtTWdp