Bhargabi Das
@nagging_citizen
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A raging potato. Part-time anthropologist and a poet. Interested in poetics-politics of water, state, bureaucracy, affect, citizenship and everything in-between
Maynooth, Ireland
Joined November 2021
Using tropes of #eviction & #embankment politics, I write on how the majoritarian state using env systematically turns Bengali Muslims in Assam landless, deskilled & pol precarious. Just published in the Sociological Bulletin @societyinsoso
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Grateful to the Bulletin and @rishivalley n Aparna Rayaprol for their enormous support in getting this timely published, particularly at a time when more than 3.5K families are continuing to be evicted in Assam. To read a pdf, pls leave your email id in the comments.
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RT @reporters_co: Reliance, Adani, JSW and other corporates, as part of Association of Power Producers, lobbied the Modi gov't against pol….
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The Modi government repeatedly pushed the deadline since 2015 for coal-fired power plants to install devices for curbing noxious emissions after the power producers wrote over 20 letters lobbying...
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RT @ZamanRokibuz_: A 60-year-old has fled home to avoid being picked up by the police. Another man who was deported despite having protecti….
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RT @ZamanRokibuz_: Dhubri district authorities have allocated one katha of land (2,880 sq ft) to each displaced family. It had also earmar….
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RT @Anthro_Security: Please join us for this important roundtable: Faz'a (فزعة) in the face of ongoing Nakba.by #Insaniyyat - Society of Pa….
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RT @razzmatazzing: friend had a panic attack and broke down because her parents who reside in jammu did not pick her calls. it is so easy f….
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RT @svaradarajan: I want folks to reflect on the logic which the government is following on the flow of information. 1. Indian news channe….
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Many thanks to @JelleJPWouters , Mary Tucker & particularly (and always) to Dan for inviting me into this!.
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Published! First is a co-authored piece exploring 'Environmental Humanities South' perspective. In the other article, I develop the concept of 'Ecopolitical Spirituality', engaging with racist politics surrounding Miya Muslims in Assam. It's Open Access, read them here 👇🏾:
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RT @sangbarooahpish: Now in Assam, a journalist can be detained for covering a protest against an alleged scam in a bank whose director is….
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Dilwar Mozumder had asked the Assam Co-operative Apex Banks MD about allegations of a multi-crore recruitment scam.
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RT @ZamanRokibuz_: Dilwar Hussain Mozumdar, a journalist with The CrossCurrent, was arrested by the police when he reached the bank headqua….
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Dilwar Hussain Mozumdar, a journalist with a digital news portal, was covering a protest to demand an inquiry into the alleged mismanagement.
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RT @SOAS_SAI: PhD scholarship for candidate who wants to create and pursue their own socio-legal research project on sectoral water conflic….
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RT @mekhala_saran: In this interview with me, carried out in writing from across the bars that ensnare him, Sharjeel Imam reflects on the p….
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"My mother is holding on, hoping that I will be out soon. However, her health is deteriorating," Sharjeel Imam says.
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RT @ZamanRokibuz_: The SC ordered deportation of 63 Muslims housed in the Matia Detention camp in Assam. I found that most of them had land….
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Scroll tracked down relatives of seven of the 63 people that the court wants expelled. All contested Assam government’s claim that they are from Bangladesh.
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RT @CSAS_UCSC: Professor Ambika Aiyadurai's talk, "Caring for Humans and Nonhumans: Challenges in India's Wildlife Conservation" is now ava….
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RT @anaivas: Join us at @ucddublin @ucdsociology to celebrate the ✨#EuropeanAnthropologyDays✨in Ireland, and be part of a conversation on….
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