Anupam Chakravartty

i am arboreal mostly

[Rokibuz Zaman @ZamanRokibuz_]

Protest in Guwahati in support of Delhi students' protest.

Banners demanding to free Adivasi activist Pranab Doley, who was arrested for leading protests against Kaziranga luxury hotels, were also seen. @scroll_in

[Jitendra @journojitendra]

The #Chambal #River has drastically reduced in flow over the last 30 yrs due to the number of dams, pushing #dolphins to the confluence of #YamunaRiver, further threatening the #egg-laying species-#reptiles/#birds from predators like #straydogs on exposed river beds. @wii_india

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

DTE Ground Report: Electoral freebies for women brought Himanta Biswa Sarma to power in 2021; can they rework their magic?

With close to 1.45 million debt-ridden women spread across poll-bound Northeastern state, incumbent NDA alliance yet again relying on DBTs to marginalised women to win polls

@yield82 reports from Nagaon, Golaghat and Jorhat districts

https://t.co/wPUituUysU

[Good Food Movement @goodfoodin]

The meagre morsels swallowed by Assam’s tea workers: “The hands that bring us India’s favourite beverage are undernourished as they battle anaemia and rely on foraged produce for their health,” writes @yield82

Read here: https://t.co/9O4xw7hPz7

[Good Food Movement @goodfoodin]

Assam's journey in becoming India's tea capital started in the early 1800s, and was built on the backs of lakhs of tribals from central India who were coerced into migration. Over 200 years later, those communities continue to work at tea plantations. Their work is gruelling—long hours, brief breaks, and no respite from rain or sun. The fluctuating weather, the headaches, the fevers, the lack of rest all add up and chip away at their strength.

And yet, life goes on. They sing as they work, forage local greens during their lunch break, and laugh over their shared lunch. Despite their hardships, the workers continue to treasure the idea of a permanent job at the tea estate and the land rights it could bring in its wake. What does it mean to be a worker at a tea plantation in Assam?

Watch the full video here: https://t.co/iSKEfSNZc6

#goodfoodmovement #assam

[Good Food Movement @goodfoodin]

A raincoat, an umbrella, and a pair of sandals—when the rain pours down on Assam's tea estates, this is all that protects its workers whose hands pick and deliver coveted tea leaves. Come rain or shine, they must spend 8 hours in the gardens each day, carrying heavy baskets of harvested leaves as they diligently make their way from one row to the next.
Watch our latest documentary to know more about the life of a worker at a tea plantation: https://t.co/WjCj1ZqEPR

#goodfoodmovement #tea

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

An endangered Western Hoolock Gibbon has become the first casualty of the failed mitigation measures for an electrified railway line in Assam’s primate sanctuary, Hollongapar in Jorhat.

🖊️ @yield82

https://t.co/7Ch8GVLPXv

[Roxy Koll ⛈ @RockSea]

The ICAR circular restricting media interaction is based on 1964 rules. These rules in fact say that no sanction is required for media communication if it is of scientific character.

These rules are for protecting confidential official information, not to withhold science.

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

BREAKING: In a tragic incident, a male gibbon attempting to cross a railway track was found dead due electrocution on February 8 morning in the Hollongapar Gibbon Sanctuary under Jorhat Forest Division, according to the local Assam forest officials.

Photo courtesy: Mridu Paban Phukan.

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

27 miners have been killed and 9 injured in an explosion inside an illegal rat-hole mine of Meghalaya’s East Jaintia Hills district.

It has again shone a light on the festering issue of illegal rat-hole mining in the Northeastern state

🖊️ @yield82

https://t.co/QFraXziDU0

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

The contested highway expansion through Kaziranga National Park was approved with over 30 mandates. Speed sensors, no-night construction, & 5m-high animal underpasses are among the NBWL’s strict conditions to protect rhinos, elephants & tigers
🖋️ @yield82 https://t.co/lcFRyal4Od

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

While the recent elevated corridor project inaugurated by PM Modi in Kaziranga has been hailed as a milestone, local activists have raised alarm over the impact on wildlife & livelihood loss due to highway widening & expansion

🖊️ @yield82

https://t.co/l0EknkkIdE

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

#weekend The dancing deer of Manipur stares at near-extinction as its marshy habitat thins and fragments

🖊️ @yield82

https://t.co/xgjHcWBgPc

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

It has been a day of blood on the tracks as a Delhi-bound Rajdhani rammed into a herd of wild elephants, killing 7. The lone survivor is a calf born during the collision and now fighting for its life in Kaziranga.

@yield82 reports from Kampur in Nagaon, Assam

https://t.co/femXbYw830

[Good Food Movement @goodfoodin]

For Assam’s Mising community, this fish paste represents tradition, food security | by Anupam Chakravartty (@yield82)

Pungent, fermented Namsing, made in flood-prone regions surrounding Kaziranga, is a reliable protein source even in the bleakest times

https://t.co/Qll8iKSVye…

[Anupam Chakravartty @yield82]

How does a fish paste protect the Mising community in Kaziranga, Assam facing multiple challenges? Do watch this stunner by Ruella Rahman Khound and Gourav Gogoi, produced for Good Food Movement @goodfoodin Link: https://t.co/o2sKdoUxDu
#Superfood #FOREST #Foodie

[Prabhjyot Gill @Prabhjyot_1982]

Atrocities at Shristi Wellness, Guwahati are real. I saw it. #BelievetheGirls
Healing = compassion, not abuse. Survivors deserve dignity. @NewsLiveGhy @PragNews @news18northeast @DY365 @guwahatiplus @pratidintime

[Anupam Chakravartty @yield82]

@ANI Shame on ANI for becoming spokespersons for Israeli terrorists. He is a threat not just to the world but to his own citizens. Shameful that ANI is lionising this man.

[Down To Earth @down2earthindia]

At least 1,200 people were evacuated from Bhotiapara in Sivasagar district of Assam following a blowout in an oil and gas rig belonging to the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation

🖊️ @yield82

https://t.co/e2HNrSih0v

[donald_takhell @donaldtakhell]

follow this thread to read about the havoc wreaked across the Northeast by the incessant rainfall.
@KimiColney @t_sandipan @yield82 @itsMarinaDai