Happy to share our recent publication in GEC; taking three cases, we discuss how non-decision-making and non-action shape the status quo in transboundary waters? Thanks, Sumit Vij, for the lead, and Jeroen Warner for the co-lead
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Modi Government's Campaign Around Ram Mandir Negates Everything That India Stands For thewire.in/communalism/mo…

So True..World will look back at 2023 as year humanity exposed its inability to tackle climate crisis, scientists say theguardian.com/environment/20…

📢 PhD vacancy alert! 📢

At SDC_WUR, we have several exciting PhD vacancies coming up in the next week(s), including one on:

Peri-urban land and water commons in the Global North and South

Supervised by Sumit Vij & Jeroen Warner

POLLEN Wageningen U&R

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New vacancy: PhD of peri-urban land and water commons in the Global North and South dlvr.it/Szmd14

#Bangalore

Horribly wrong!

By deciding to maintain high water level at Deepor Beel and conduct the Rising Sun Water Fest - you not only hindered the migration of birds, but elephants too have stopped frequenting it. Fireworks today must be a death knell for the fauna at the Ramsar site.

Challenging the orthodox way infrastructure is understood and enacted, fantastic co-authors and a product of powerful deliberations @drmarylawhon Natasha Cornea Clemens Greiner Prince Guma Timos Karpouzoglou Seth Schindler Gideon Tups Peter Dannenberg & others
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🔓: The negative effects of power interplay have led to the exclusion of certain policy actors – especially communities at risk – in policy-making processes and a lack of transboundary-level adaptation in South Asia, say Vij et al. More insights👉tinyurl.com/SA-PPlay

For those following France's incredibly interesting bedbug crisis, this book comes highly recommended: Pests in the City: Flies, Bedbugs, Cockroaches, and Rats, by Dawn Day Biehler uwapress.uw.edu/book/978029599…

A new IJURR book review symposium on Comparative Urbanism by Jennifer Robinson, with contributions by Armelle Choplin, Richard Harris, Tom Goodfellow, Catalina Ortiz, Stefan Kipfer, Osmany Porto, Nadir Kinossian & marie helene zerah is available to read here: ijurr.org/book-reviews/

'What’s happening in India is not that loose variety of internet fascism. It’s the real thing.' Arundhati Roy at her best. Must read.

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G20 Venue in Delhi becomes a swimming pool after some rain!

With ⁦Timos Karpouzoglou⁩ and vishal narain, I challenge the myth of the formal (state-controlled) water as ‘piped’ water versus the informal (non-state) water as ‘non-piped’ in peri-urban New Delhi. ⁦Urban Geography⁩ ⁦@drmarylawhon⁩ ⁦International Water Resources Association (IWRA)⁩ linkedin.com/posts/sumit-vi…

Watch this video to witness the shocking cruelty inflicted upon innocent street dogs by the Modi government in preparation for the G20 summit.

Dogs are being dragged by their necks, beaten with sticks and thrown into cages. They are being denied food and water, and they are…

No one forced us Muslims to stay in India in 1947, we made that choice of our own free will. Then why is it that there is concerted campaign to make us feel excluded & like 2nd class citizens? This is just one of many things I discussed with Samdish Bhatia in our extended conversation.

This part broke my heart 💔

Piped drinking water regimes beyond the state: insights from peri-urban Delhi flows.hypotheses.org/10301 via Hypotheses

Hindu supremacist leaders send their kids to study abroad, they wear western clothes, and enjoy a luxury life. But, they never let them join Bajrang Dal or Durga Vahini or BJP IT Cell in the name of ‘Hindus are in Danger’!

Professor of Peace and conflict research Ashok Swain criticized and accused Indian prime minister Narendra Modi of supporting the majoritarian Meitei group in Manipur as Meitei group held a protest rally against the arrest of those who had publicly paraded and sexually assaulted…