I belong to a small minority of legal scholars that do transdisciplinary work (as opposed to less intriguing interdisciplinary work). My work on law, political economy, colonialism, and environmental and climate justice tends to surprise people, even within my discipline. I find it useful to call myself interdisciplinary so that I can quarrel with all …
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Cambridge
I am sitting at my desk, looking out at the line-up of ash, poplar and lime trees. There have been plenty of large windows and trees beyond them to gaze at in the last five years. I have been lucky in terms of houses, however financially unviable they turned out to be. I finished my …
Akkamma’s Yarn
Original story in Kannada by K.P.Poorna Chandra Tejaswi The forest that stretches behind contractor Maalemestri’s hovel is what we know as the Mudremane reserve forest. The thick forest that spreads across a couple of mountain ranges has been a safe haven for the wild boars that plague our agricultural fields. As soon as these rogue …
Gum Trees are My Friends
My words have wings and a mind of their own. They sing when the skies are blue and when the breeze filters through the eucalyptus leaves. Unfortunately, they turned their back on me when I returned home to Cambridge. That explains a long silence in this space – I was reckoning means to deal with …
The Fire and The Bird
Au revoir, Australia! We are at the end of this ten-week long journey. I am writing this as I wait at Sydney airport for my flight back home. I should very much resent the idea of not having to write about the land I love so much anymore. The Canberra that I had grown to …
The Road Vanishes
I have now seen this land and its creatures ridden down by the three horsemen of the apocalypse. I am not very inclined to wait for the fourth. But I am curious to know what would that be – what’s left really? Fire, smoke, hail, and biblical plague? Locusts? Zeus’ swords? It’s a pity that …
Between the Heaven and the Earth, We Live in the Clouds – Fieldnotes, Week 7
I have stayed away from writing for a while. Since the country had slumped into an extended or even a permanent, state of mourning, I could barely get myself to think or write anything. Not to mention, it is very debilitating to wake into a dull orange glow of smoke covered city, where one must …
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Field Notes: Week 1
Frankly, I do not think my field notes have to be this sparse. Had I not been jetlagged for a good part of the week and then, suddenly struck by a very random Hay fever, I think I would have had a lot more to say each day. I am sitting inside my quiet apartment, …
The Ungovernable
The wide autumn sky is clear although it leaves an impression of a dull-lit chamber. Rather very empty for an English sky. The darkness seems to be its underbelly, raising from the ground beneath but not making itself too apparent as it envelops everything around, including the escarpment I am standing on. It is hard …
Hunting for Words
Writing about writing, in other words, some eccentric forms of meta-writing is an odd thing. The oddity takes various forms as the nature of what you must write on changes. These obscure assertions will not make great sense unless I confess that I have been forced to think about writing, more specifically translating, recently when …
Defiant Ecologies 