Debika Banerji
@debikabanerji
(She/Her)
A riverine and cultural landscape researcher. Into memories and starting dialogues. Bibliophile, nature lover and a misfit.
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07-10-2021 14:46:21
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'How the Adi Ganga remembers.' Memories, narratives, stories emerge into my perceptions and sketches. Today at the conference on 'Memory, Ecology and Sustainability' hosted by Centre for Memory Studies, IIT Madras. Chaired a session and heard some very interesting papers on facets of memories.
Kolkata Police wants to close all the tram route in Kolkata! This is going opposite to the direction we rank 3 most polluted city in the world in terms of AQi, Trams are obsolete to the city it's according to Kolkata police ... #SaveKolkataTrams
I am trying to research on Dalanda House (now PTS) and old mental asylums of Kolkata. Will Kolkata Police archives have any information? Any leads?
When Michal Huss comes to Kolkata, we go and explore with Rangan Datta to understand how the city evolved. From temples to churches, synangogues and graveyards, memoryscapes of a thick landscape.
New Methods of doing 'ethno-graphic' research leading to my contribution of understanding intersections between landscapes and art. A cartographic (un)mapping approach to understand how the Adi Ganga transitions. Thanks to Jenia Mukherjee Shreyashi Bhattacharya
KALIGHAT TRAM DEPOT REOPENS AFTER 10 YRS! Thanks to citizens & Fortune Foods! Kalighat to Ballygunge route starts TOMORROW! Now, let's work together to REVIVE & MODERNIZE Kolkata Tramways! Every voice matters! Alstom India, please help us upgrade the Kolkata #trams
Spoke a bit about cultural landscapes, that are (re) created through memories, tracing it from the understandings of Geography. Adi Ganga became a dynamic entity-its existence questioned, dissected. Thanks to TheBhawanipur and Geo dept. Shared space with Cospeaker Rangan Datta