Banu Subramaniam

Oct 2, 2024 | frontline.thehindu.com | Banu Subramaniam |Kalpish Ratna |Anand Mishra |Saba Naqvi

Two recent calamities, geographically distanced, began in the death of trees. A landslide annihilated two villages of Wayanad district in Kerala. Two oceans west, in Brazil, a new viral disease menaced pregnant mothers. Many babies were born with small heads, brain damage, and blindness during the 2015 Zika fever outbreak in Brazil. When the congenital Zika virus syndrome spread globally, all attention was focussed on Aëdes aegypti, the mosquito vector.

Jun 21, 2023 | pioneerworks.org | Banu Subramaniam

As a species, we have a remarkable tendency to look at almost any living thing and only see another version of ourselves. Even plants are not safe from our projections. We divvy them up into heroes and villains—native and invasive species. This paradigm is botanically incoherent, if not altogether misleading. It says a lot more about us, and the nativist roots of our society, than it does about the natural world. Consider the story of kudzu.

Feb 7, 2023 | lrb.co.uk | Banu Subramaniam |Meehan Crist

In the second episode of a four-part series on climate chaos and reproductive justice, Meehan Crist speaks to Banu Subramaniam, the evolutionary biologist and feminist science scholar.