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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.

Qanat-e-Dakkhan - A Poem

Listen to Viju recite Qanat-e-Dakkhan.0:00/117.6533331× KAREZ

The Living Agri - ‘Culture’: on Reviving Agriculture as a Culture

This article is based on field interviews conducted in 2022

Experiences from Co-creating a Local Knowledge Network [CLKN]

People with shared experience of CLKN are the co-authors of