Anima Pookkunniyil

Journalist. Writer. Formerly @teriin / @the_hindu @businessline / Climate Change Impacts / Energy Transitions/ Migration / @Laadli_PF / ACJ & Univ of Hyderabad

[New India Foundation @newindiafndtion]

The most recent cohort of NIF Fellows gathered on a spring evening in Delhi. The dinner brought together Fellows Amrita Sharma, P. Anima, and Urvashi Butalia from Delhi, Amandeep Sandhu from Bangalore, and Bakhtiar Dadabhoy from Hyderabad, alongside NIF’s in-house editor Rivka Israel and NIF Trustee Niraja Gopal Jayal. Conversation ranged across chapters and writing, editing and research. The Round 12 Fellows are halfway through their fellowship, and we look forward to the books they will bring into the world.

@_asandhu @animabal @_a_m_r_i_t_a @NandiniNai

[New India Foundation @newindiafndtion]

Anima Pookkunniyil | Round 12 NIF Fellow
Welcome, Anima - We’re delighted to support this timely and layered project that weaves together ecology, commerce, history, and local voices to tell the story of a region in transition.

[Westland Books @WestlandBooks]

We are so thrilled to see our author @animbal on the prestigious @newindiafndtion fellowship list! ✨

We can’t wait to publish her book on the Chaliyar river, seen through the lens of history, ecology and human lives.

[Anima Pookkunniyil @animabal]

Absolutely delighted!

[New India Foundation @newindiafndtion]

We’re proud to welcome the Round 12 Fellows of the New India Foundation Book Fellowship, each of whom is working on a significant non-fiction book project that captures diverse aspects of contemporary and modern India.

[The Migration Story @TMigrationStory]

How do you report stories about migrants, show the world their personal journeys, challenges and celebrations without coming across as too intrusive? In our second roundtable, journalists @animabal @amoolyarajappa @pirouetteworld and @JamwalNidhi weigh in on the subject. Listen here: https://t.co/k151KyWVAd
Audio and sound design: https://t.co/IWeDarnrXJ ⁠@btrpt9738⁠

[United Nations in India @UNinIndia]

Madhav Gadgil has spent decades protecting people and the planet through research and community engagement.

The Indian ecologist is among the 6 recipients of the @UNEP Champions of the Earth award, the UN’s highest environmental honour.

https://t.co/nntqs40FK6

[Anima Pookkunniyil @animabal]

Shorn of negotiator parlance, #Cop29 coalesces into the Jerry Maguire one-liner: Show me the money. The wide-open negotiating field called for exalted ambition and commitment. Both proved to be in short supply as the NCQG is set at USD 300 billion a year. https://t.co/LQwHpNWBNg

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

#SanjivKhanna, the next Chief Justice of India is taking charge at a time when the judiciary is waging a daily battle with burgeoning pendency and unceasing inflow of high-stakes cases. @kdrajagopal writes.

https://t.co/BegLU6Yl00

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

Watch | In this video, @kdrajagopal, Sreeparna Chakrabarty, and @AroonDeep discuss the Supreme Court’s recent judgement and the technical nuances surrounding the VVPAT system.
https://t.co/vEVw5mJEVD

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

#ElectionsWithTheHindu | Ammunni, an 87-year old voter from Payyanakkal, gets a helping hand from her best friend Ayishabi at a polling station in Kozhikode Lok Sabha constituency, Kerala.

[COP29 Azerbaijan @COP29_AZ]

Today, the COP29 Presidency held its official launch event at the COP29 office in Baku – revealing for the first time its logo to the world.

#COP29AZE #COP29Azerbaijan

[Tunku Varadarajan @tunkuv]

Writers and poets from unfashionable towns and the seemingly stagnant countryside have created monuments of literature.
I review "Provincials," by @SumanaSiliguri
https://t.co/radrcfZoel via @WSJBooks

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

In @newyorkerhumor, from 2016: “It is with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Bess Kalb. The cause of death was botulism from a homemade strawberry-rhubarb jam that was prepared by one of her housemates.” https://t.co/lM4l1JEwro

[Mint @livemint]

Agrovoltaics is an integrated system aims at maximizing land productivity by harnessing solar power while simultaneously growing crops under photovoltaic solar panels. @animabal writes a detailed story on this practice:
https://t.co/3HfJcyG45R

[Mumbai Press Club @mumbaipressclub]

AN OPEN LETTER TO EDITORS AND MEDIA HOUSES

[Anima Pookkunniyil @animabal]

Success stories, children of #migrant workers leveraging access to education to break the cycle of poverty, serve as an impetus to create more inclusive classrooms in #Kerala. My story in @TMigrationStory
https://t.co/7JoDVi9LUi

[The Migration Story @TMigrationStory]

Debt forced Rafik SK and Noorjahan to migrate from West Bengal to Kerala. Their daughters, Rokshat and Najiya, overcame language barriers and classroom bias to get an education. @animabal reports on children of migrant workers in Kerala schools https://t.co/nLwvKqwbvG

[Krishnadas Rajagopal @kdrajagopal]

https://t.co/ggwWbgsaiA

Mr. Nariman championed secular values, free speech and independent judiciary. He chastened, but laced his criticism with wry, often self-deprecatory, humour

[Anima Pookkunniyil @animabal]

@aditimukherji Hi, Requesting to be added to the list. Thanks

[Mint @livemint]

The Conference of Parties is historically an annual gathering of countries that take slow steps towards combating the effects of climate change. What went down at COP28? @animabal explains in depth:
https://t.co/figaWzaoA9