“The Crown of Jaffar Miya’s Badshah’s”
Field notes by- Abhishek and Harshawardhan
💡Context belongs to work
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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?
Sanchari.local in Hara - Early explorations of a traveling Raspberry Pi library
A story goes..
A Sanchari is a storyteller, a bearded
More-than-human Networks of Hara
Networks aren’t something you install but something to listen to, to look closely at, and to learn from.
Qanat-e-Dakkhan - A Poem
Listen to Viju recite Qanat-e-Dakkhan.0:00/117.6533331×
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Stories from Hara
The centuries-old tales of the daivas, migration histories of the Marathi Naik communities, recipes of delectable dry fish curries of the Karavali - the community in Hara is a meshwork of communal histories and indigenous practices.