This is a book review of Tigers Are Our Brothers: Anthropology of Wildlife Conservation in Northeast India, authored by Dr. Ambika Aiyadurai. The review discusses the key themes and takeaways from the book.
This paper explores the negotiations of Muslim childhoods in a state school, using the conceptual lens of ‘everyday nationalism’.
The world that is transitioning into a metaverse, thanks to Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates, holds unpredictable consequences on social relations in a post-truth world.
This chapter discusses the modifications carried out in the landscape of Badami in Karnataka to harvest water for the settlement since its establishment as an Early Chalukyan capital in the seventh century. The chapter also highlights the significance of sacred groves in the historic landscape of Badami. The remnants of fortified walls, temples, water features, and sacred grooves testify to the ingenious engineering systems that existed in the past.
The paper explores female representations going back to the subcontinent's prehistory in Pre-Harappan Baluchistan to south Indian antiquity in a volume in honour of Lithuanian archaeologist Maria Gimbutas known for her writings on feminine representations in Neolithic Europe.
In this chapter, we assess the impacts of such transformations on the lives of India’s largest land mammal, the Asian elephant and discuss the adaptations displayed by this species to human-induced change, with a particular focus on how the successful exploitation of rurban agricultural resources has allowed for the appearance of spatially and temporally flexible behavioural innovations that, in turn, have impacted the life-history strategies of a threatened elephant population in a peri-urban region of southern India
The study describes the creation of four simple metrics to estimate: 1. the ratio of ‘green’ vegetated areas to the ‘blue’ water spread areas, defined as the ‘Green-blue ratio’ (GBA); 2. The ratio of ‘blue’ water spread areas to ‘built-up’ ratio around the lakes, defined as the ‘Blue to Built-up ratio’ (BBA), 3. the percentage of impervious surface area (ISA) and 4. the pace of urbanisation in the dynamic zones (DZ) of urban lake environments.