Angana Chakrabarti

3 weeks ago | news.mongabay.com | Angana Chakrabarti

In Northeastern India’s Assam, women have joined forces to save the resident greater adjutant stork (Leptoptilos dubius), known locally as the hargila, which was long considered a “dirty, smelly bird” that villagers would attack. The women, who call themselves the Hargila Army, incorporate the birds into their songs, prayers and weavings in order to help protect the species and spark appreciation for them.

3 weeks ago | globalpressjournal.com | Angana Chakrabarti |GPJ India

CHAMARIA, INDIA — It was village council election season in India’s northeastern state of Assam, and nearly 60,000 people vied for over 21,000 seats. In a country where political ideology often hinges on religion, voters in at least one Anchalik Panchayat (block-level) race, in Kamrup District, showed that when they cast ballots, there’s a lot more at stake. Assam’s population is roughly 34% Muslim, though by some counts it’s as much as 40%, and growing fast.

2 months ago | hindi.mongabay.com | Angana Chakrabarti

नागालैंड के चाखेसांग जनजाति से आने वाली कार्यकर्ता सेनो त्सुहा मोटे अनाज और पारिस्थितिकी के हिसाब से खेती को फिर से जीवित करने की पहल की अगुवाई कर रही हैं। इससे समुदायों को पारंपरिक ज्ञान को बचाए रखते हुए जलवायु परिवर्तन के हिसाब से ढलने में मदद मिल रही है। भारत-नागा संघर्ष के बीच पली-बढ़ी त्सुहा ने अपना जीवन सामुदायिक विकास, देसी ज्ञान, सामाजिक न्याय और पर्यावरण को बचाने में लगा दिया। मोंगाबे के साथ इस बातचीत में, वह समुदाय और आजीविका के जरिए स्थिरता और महिलाओं को सशक्त बनाने की अपने सफर के...

Feb 10, 2025 | india.mongabay.com | Angana Chakrabarti

Seno Tsuhah, an activist from Nagaland’s Chakhesang tribe, has been leading initiatives to revive millet cultivation and ecological farming, helping communities adapt to climate change while preserving traditional knowledge. Growing up amid the Indo-Naga conflict, Tsuhah dedicated her life to community development, advocating for indigenous knowledge, social justice, and environmental sustainability.

Nov 14, 2024 | indexoncensorship.org | Martin Bright |Jemimah Steinfeld |Clemence Manyukwe |Angana Chakrabarti

Hybrid regimes, illiberal democracies, democraship, democratura: these are all slightly terrifying new terms for governments drifting towards authoritarianism around the globe. We have been used to seeing the world through the binary geopolitics of the more-or-less democratic free world on one side, and the straightforward dictatorship on the other. But what is Hungary under Viktor Orbán? Or Narendra Modi’s India?