“The Crown of Jaffar Miya’s Badshah’s”
Field notes by- Abhishek and Harshawardhan
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In-Conversation: On observing weather variations and climate shifts
While scientific or academic discourses and understandings of ‘Climate Change’ abound, these everyday observations that arise in conversation allow for a deeper engagement with local experiences of climate change.
Zindhaaa
Mein Aur Mera Poorana Shaher
Bidar Heritage Center: An upcoming archive and learning museum in 2025
People's Archive of Bidar is a long term engagement initiated in 2017 to archive ordinary histories of communities and their practices based in Hyderabad-Karnataka region.
A lesson in Lambani Embroidery
Through the process of co-creation with Ambika Ji, we learned about what was being stitched onto the fabrics—the histories, values, and lived realities of their makers.
'Shaddi Kaleyuvudu' as a way to engage with women farmers
What role do non-landowning farm workers play in identifying, articulating, or devising responses to changing agrarian or climatic conditions? What role do such gendered and caste-based situated knowledge practices play in shaping Bidar’s response to agrarian and climate change?
Kalyana Karnataka Karawaan
Information about growing cities in Kalyana Karnataka, agricultural, forest and industrial changes are underrepresented on OpenStreetMap, a Wikipedia for maps. This event is for new and experienced mappers interested to discover cities and landscape of Kalyana Karnataka.
Beginning to map the Bidar Fort's vastness - Moats, Palaces, Settlements
We began the complex process of mapping the Bidar Fort area on OpenStreetMap. The structures within the fort are built over time, some have undergone heavy alterations by different sultans, which makes it hard to determine their timeline. So for now, we've documented the fortification boundaries
Qanat-e-Dakkhan - A Poem
Listen to Viju recite Qanat-e-Dakkhan.0:00/117.6533331×
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The Living Agri - ‘Culture’: on Reviving Agriculture as a Culture
This article is based on field interviews conducted in 2022