Nabanita Samanta | নবনীতা

Social Anthropologist. PhDing @EdinburghUni. EARTH Scholar @sgsah & @EdinburghUni

[Nabanita Samanta | নবনীতা @HydroEcstatic]

Absolutely delighted to be a part of this wonderful & very promising cohort! Can't wait to meet y'all #EARTHScholars in Scotland!

Many thanks @sgsah and @BCScotland for this.

Looking forward to working with
@hannahkateboast at @EdinburghUni

#EARTHScholarship

@iitbombay

[SGSAH @sgsah]

Meet our EARTH Scholars!

In 2024, we'll see 13 researchers from around the world collaborating with Scotland-based scholars, academics & partners to address #EnvHum & #ClimateEmergency issues in innovative ways.

🔗Learn more about the #EARTH2024 cohort: https://t.co/0YC1gXwCst

[Nabanita Samanta | নবনীতা @HydroEcstatic]

Delighted to have been featured in the 30th edition of V2V Commons, the official newsletter of @V2VPartnership . Grateful to be a part of this vibrant research network! I look forward to contributing meaningfully to the conversations that @V2VPartnership has been fostering.

[Nabanita Samanta | নবনীতা @HydroEcstatic]

World Fisheries Day arrives every year as an unquiet reminder that fisheries is not just about fishes but about people and places, about ecology and culture, place-based knowledge and relationalities - and how these are inextricably embedded into each other.

#WorldFisheriesDay

[Nabanita Samanta | নবনীতা @HydroEcstatic]

What began as a small circle of people striving to resist gatekeeping in academia has now organically grown into a large, vibrant network of students and researchers - around 6000 people spread over 4 WhatsApp groups & 1 Telegram group - from different parts of India and beyond.

[Nabanita Samanta | নবনীতা @HydroEcstatic]

Today, 8th November, is Aaron Swartz's birthday. On that occasion, re-upping my old posts where I shared about a robust anti-paywall knowledge-sharing community that we have been running for more than four years! An endeavor that has drawn inspiration from Aaron Swartz.

[Nabanita Samanta | নবনীতা @HydroEcstatic]

[1/n] Day before yesterday (14th March) was the 3rd anniversary of a Group that I have been running along with a few wonderful co-admins.
What we have been striving to do is to build a robust anti-paywall knowledge-sharing community dedicated to ...

[Nabanita Samanta | নবনীতা @HydroEcstatic]

Aaron Swartz's "Guerilla Open Access Manifesto" has been pivotal to building the foundational premise of our Group.

[Nabanita Samanta | নবনীতা @HydroEcstatic]

@sindi_leigh @Princeton Heartiest Congratulations! Best wishes for the journey ahead 💙@sindi_leigh

[Hrushikesh @Reashiee]

Yesterday PM Modi laid the foundation stone for India’s largest deep water port: the Vadhavan Port Project, but the ceremony was not held in Vadhavan, where the port is actually proposed. It was held in Palghar, around 30 km away from Vadhavan.

Why you may ask?

Stay with me 🧵

[Nabanita Samanta | নবনীতা @HydroEcstatic]

Thanks @TanzilShafique for making it possible to travel to Sheffield to attend the symposium in-person. Wish we could have more time to continue the conversations! Nevertheless, this surely provides the much-needed impetus to deepen further engagements with pluriversal thinking.

[Nabanita Samanta | নবনীতা @HydroEcstatic]

It was such an exciting day, with absolutely intriguing conversations including the fascinating keynote lecture by @SavranskyMartin & a set of interesting presentations in the ECRs roundtable! Many thanks @TanzilShafique for putting together this symposium on climate pluriverse.

[M.Yuvan @Yuvan_aves]

Indian govt's plan to make Great Nicobar a modern city is a project of plain settler colonialism. 50 yrs later Shompen and Nicobarese tribes will be slave-workers in their own land, with their forests and ways of living wiped out. India's plight was this less than a century ago.

[Manish Chandi @manishchandi]

Very few people have acknowledged the Shompen. A Letter to the President of India: Who will stand up for 229 Shompens (PVTG) and 27,168 Nicobarese in Great Nicobar Island, whose interests stand ignored by a “Mega Infra Project”? https://t.co/smZoDwPOvg via @countercurrents

[APPSC IIT Bombay @AppscIITb]

Their homes in Jai Bhim Nagar Powai, where they have lived most of their childhood, were demolished by BMC two days ago. We found them coming out from the rubble today morning with this copy of the Indian Constitution.They went searching for it. Their search for justice continues

[Nabanita Samanta | নবনীতা @HydroEcstatic]

" Gaza cannot be just another scroll in our fleeting social media feed.
...
Scrolling has turned our thumb into a monstrous muscle.
...
If words wept, this screen would be leaking. "

[Nabanita Samanta | নবনীতা @HydroEcstatic]

" The heaviness of the night hasn't been lifted yet,
The moment for the emancipation of the eyes and the heart hasn't come yet,

Let us keep walking, as we haven’t reached the destination yet… "

[Nabanita Samanta | নবনীতা @HydroEcstatic]

" Abhi garaani-e-shab mein kami nahin aayi
Najaat-e-deedaa-o-dil ki ghadi nahin aayi

Chale chalo ki woh manzil abhi nahin aayi... ”

- Faiz Ahmed Faiz

[Nabanita Samanta | নবনীতা @HydroEcstatic]

" ... is sure to be just around the corner.

Chale chalo, as Faiz wrote about the search for a new dawn, ki voh manzil abhi nahin aayi. A safe harbour is still some distance away. "

[Nabanita Samanta | নবনীতা @HydroEcstatic]

https://t.co/WOVlbCbMri

"India’s voters have delivered a body blow to this vision but the truth is that Modi’s back. Indians who love & value their Constitution–their rights, their civilisation & their fraternity–will have to steel themselves for a more decisive round which..."

[Nabanita Samanta | নবনীতা @HydroEcstatic]

"... of 'vikas' stands discredited and devalued...

Above all, undoubtedly, the BJP’s failure to secure a majority on its own is an unambiguous rejection of Narendra Modi’s prime ministerial overlordship."

[Nabanita Samanta | নবনীতা @HydroEcstatic]

https://t.co/5A1vYvMQ0B

" By denying Modi’s party a clear-cut majority, the electorate has fired a warning shot: enough of unaccountable governance; enough of misuse of the law and its coercive instruments in pursuit of political gains; ... ..."

[Nabanita Samanta | নবনীতা @HydroEcstatic]

"Let there be no doubt that the 2024 vote is also a vote against Modi’s in-your-face crony capitalism. For ten years, the prime minister had kept the country in thrall of something called 'vikas' & ensured that the corporate sector remained solidly in his corner. That model ..."