Pranav Menon

Part time Lawyer cum Activist, former Research scholar CSLG, JNU, Grad student UMN Anthro. Interested in forests, legal pluralism, pol economy and resistance.

[Pranav Menon @pranavmenon19]

Grateful to @SLR_NLSIU for their editorial support for this piece. This piece is an ode to the Van Gujjars resilience and keenness to engage with legal practices as a tactic of asserting belonging to the Western Himalayas. This spirit is epitomized by @AmeerForest and VGTYS

[Socio-Legal Review @SLR_NLSIU]

In our Notes from the Field in 20(1), Mohammad Meer Hamja (@AmeerForest) and Pranav Menon (@pranavmenon19) draw upon socio-historical and ethnographic accounts of the Van Gujjar community to re-present them as powerful legal actors in their own right. https://t.co/7BJf8ybTsi

[Indigenous Rights Advocacy Centre (IRAC) @irac_india]

A mindless denial: District bodies increasingly refuse tribal population's FRA rights https://t.co/kwWS2W6WrX

[Dr. Ghada Sasa, PhD 🇵🇸 @drghadasasa]

I just read the new Haaretz article about how Israeli planted pines are suddenly dying en masse and it is absolutely worth dissecting. Here are a summary & my observations as a Palestinian scholar who writes on green colonialism. 1/

[The Thinking Tiger @krish_bohra]

Jim Corbett's writings transcend the boundaries of shikar literature or even nature writing. He remains one of the biggest icons of the English language writing related to India. The fact that someone like Satyajit Ray designed a cover for his book illustrates this quite well.

[The Thinking Tiger @krish_bohra]

It is the Remembrance Day for Lost Species.

Here are some books I recommend you read. Learn how we lost what we lost so we don't lose what we have.

🦤🦤🦤

[Iqtibas اقتباس @iqtibaas88]

Sulaiman, an Arab trader, wrote a travelogue of India & China in the year 851. It was included in a collection called Silsilatutawarikh. Here is a Hindi translation of Sulaiman's travelogue from Arabic original by Maulvi Mahesh Prasad 'Sadhu', published by Nagaripracharini Sabha.

[Atreyee Majumder @twitatreyee]

Michel Foucault. Madness, Language, Desire: On Literature (2015, Ch. 2).

[Aman Gujjar @AmanGuj62650324]

आज माननीय सदस्य सचिव श्री प्रदीप मणि त्रिपाठी जी राज्य विधिक सेवा प्राधिकरण उत्तराखंड से मुलाकात कर माननीय उच्च न्यायालय नैनीताल में वन गुज्जरों के अधिकारों के संबंध जनहित याचिका पर अहम चर्चा हुई एवं जनहित याचिका की सुनवाई में उपस्थित हुए @manishmaggie

[Nitin Sethi @nit_set]

Modi Govt’s Partner to Promote India’s Rice Trade: An Alleged Scamster.

A trader prosecuted for defrauding bank of Rs ~1,000 crores, and other crimes.

By @ayushikar1998, @harshithamanwan, @journomayank and I. For @reporters_co

Click Pic to read

https://t.co/XAr8LEtbEW

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

In new India, you can go scot-free after hurling shoe at CJI but commemorating death anniversary of a former professor could land you behind bars. Interestingly, the FIR was registered on a complaint from the TISS administration. This is what the country's premier institution has been reduced to?

[Surbhi Kesar @SurbhiKesar]

A student at South Asian University was sexually assaulted. The admin’s attempts to hide evidence & failure to support the her are appalling. Equally shameful is failure of faculty members—incl self-proclaimed feminists—to hold the university accountable.

https://t.co/7Refgh0Mz1

[Shireen Azam @shireenazam]

A Muslim Sanitation Caste and the Constitution of India:

For @LSEblogs, I write about the efforts of two men from the Halalkhor caste in Varanasi.

For decades, they have sought to be recognised as what they know they *are* in India’s caste order—as Muslim Dalits.

[Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar]

A migrating community of Van Gujjars and their cattle were attacked by unidentified persons twice this month in Dehradun and Uttarkashi. Discrimination and violence against the community has become more routine since the Dhami government came to power. Some news clips as examples

[Pranav Menon @pranavmenon19]

An important piece that links the rise of hindutva utilising non human relationalities for cultivating an ethic of protective environmentalism and exclusionary politics in Uttarakhand. Also a fulfilling moment when your favorite anthropologist cites your recently published paper

[Surbhi Kesar @SurbhiKesar]

South Asian University has terminated Dr. Snehashish Bhattacharya, without any due process.
The admin is taking advantage of immunity from judicial system to suppress freedom of speech & expression. Embarrassing that other faculty members are too scared to even condemn this.

[Pranav Menon @pranavmenon19]

Hii twitter fan, a doubt - was wondering what would the average cost of a gps enabled waterproof collar for monitoring movement of a particular animal on a daily basis cost? Please ecologists, wildlife folks advise?

[Article 14 @Article14live]

In 2023, 333 homes in a #MadhyaPradesh village were flooded by the #SardarSarovar dam’s backwaters, but only 39 families were rehabilitated. @AmbikaSubash on the fallout of a contentious recalculation of backwater levels

https://t.co/FrfVZWPFhu

[Buffalo Intellectual @ProfRavikantK]

images from Nepal & previously Bangladesh, Sri Lanka should be a chilling reminder to Indian media & savarna ruling class. Not everything is a foreign conspiracy (entirely)

Culture of impunity & feeling 'above' law & consequences is enough to break the fragile public patience.

[Angshuman Choudhury @angshuman_ch]

Radio silence from India’s strategic & foreign policy analysis circles, including think tank folks, to this shameful travesty. These communities have long abandoned their criticality & moral conscience in the name of realism & multilateralism. History will remember them for sure.