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Gana Kedlaya

@ganak.bsky.social
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Environment reporter. Wildlife-human interactions. Sharing #bookreviews #longreads #🤘🏾music. Hooked on indigenous knowledge & elephants. eletellnow.wordpress.com

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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
Best non-fiction books (picking best 10 among others) I explored this year... #books #bookrecco
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 01/01/2026
#books Favorites among all the fiction I read this year: Also, including Ursula le Guin and Starhawk's works here
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
A walk in the forest & some wonderful interactions...
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
How can non-elite and more-than-colonial environmentalisms offer an alternative narrative to the competing ideologies, agents and institutions shaping human–nature relationships? 👇🏾
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Monsoons are a personal favorite, always.
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
#readingnow
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Why everyone should read the fantastic The Empire of AI by @karenhao.bsky.social A brief review 👇🏾 eletellnow.wordpress.com/long-forms/ #bookreview #openai
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BOOK REVIEWS
BOOKS 2025 The Empire of AI – Karen Hao One of the finest tech journalists, Karen Hao, has been covering the world of artificial intelligence even before it became “business”. Wha…
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
#readingnow
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Amy Westervelt @amywestervelt.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I've been talking about this for years but the fossil fuel industry has five key narratives, they haven't changed much in decades, and they just shift between them/combine them depending on what is happening in the world. Made a quick and dirty flow chart to illustrate it:
Flow chart of the "fossil fuel spin cycle" showing the 5 narratives the industry shifts between: 1. We keep you safe, 2. We make your life work, 3. Economy vs. Environment, 4. We're part of the solution, 5. We're a great neighbor
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
A simple change... Misleading interpretations. Notice how most headlines lately have been replacing capture, translocation with rescue?!
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Wildlife institute WII is one among others that pushed for environment clearances for Nicobar project & now stands to get crores of rupees in mitigation/ monitoring funding. Sharing my findings on one such WII research paper that further shed light on need for research integrity 👇🏾
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
This week's #bookreviews eletellnow.wordpress.com/long-forms/
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 12/03/2025
A new study highlights the urgent need to integrate chimpanzee cultural preservation with conservation. It documents the loss of a socially-learned behavior — a mating signal — among a group of chimps following the poaching of all of the male members. Once lost, behaviors take years to reemerge.
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When a chimp community lost its males, it also lost part of its love language
Male chimpanzees in Côte d’Ivoire’s Taï National Park use distinct “auditory gestures” to attract females. However, researchers have found that when the males die, these behaviors can disappear with t...
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Prashanth N Srinivas @daktre.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
More evidence on the relative ineffectiveness of current snake anti-venom that possibly is better suited for S. Indian regions cos of heterogeneity in venom composition across the 4 Indian venomous snakes Story in Research Matters: buff.ly/E7Ec3y2
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Nepal's rhino census conducted in an interval of every five years now faces an uncertain future with the suspension of USAID, one of the major donors for the project, by the Donald Trump administration. www.business-standard.com/world-news/n...
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
There goes village commons - to benefit the corporate under the guise of greening... www.downtoearth.org.in/forests/priv...
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Private entities to gain access to state-owned degraded forests for afforestation
Private entities may soon be granted access to degraded forests in Madhya Pradesh for afforestation projects, with the opportunity to earn carbon credits. A dra
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
#readingnow
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
We need to replace/make words like experts & greens in news articles more inclusive & diverse: Their excessive usage, singular references (scientists/conservationists) have created social monoculturalism (limiting it to one section of people). Like, forest dwellers don't know better?!
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Also, tech solutions that are expensive & remain short-term & more reactive in addressing challenges on ground... 👇🏾 www.thehindu.com/news/nationa...
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IIIT Kottayam develops drones for tranquillising elephants in distress
A drone lab here has developed an advanced hexacopter-based tranquilliser-firing drone
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
This year, over 6 people died & 25 injured in processions from elephants that were highly stressed. Unfortunately, it looks like unshakable truths (such as the reality and impact of many of our customs) are of no consequence in the face of inherited beliefs. keralakaumudi.com/en/news/mobi...
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Local elephants can be brought from other states: Stay for High Court order
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has stayed the Kerala High Court order that had banned the transportation of local elephants from other states to Kerala.
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 21/02/2025
😂
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Definitely worrisome parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
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First evidence of transovarial transmission of Kyasanur Forest disease virus in Haemaphysalis and Rhipicephalus ticks in the wild - Parasites & Vectors
Background Kyasanur forest disease virus (KFDV) is a tick-borne flavivirus causing debilitating and potentially fatal disease in people in the Western Ghats region of India. The transmission cycle is ...
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Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Adani-related energy news from India is always fascinating. "The Indian government relaxed national security protocols along the Pakistan border to make way for a renewable energy park, a project ultimately handed to one of India’s richest men, Gautam Adani" www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Tycoon profited after India relaxed border security rules for energy park
Exclusive: Military experts raise concerns over change to protocols on Pakistan border to allow project that was handed to billionaire Gautam Adani
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
"In rendering this sky into English, into a language of distance and abstraction, did I preserve its unbearable weight—or did I risk reducing it, smoothing its jagged edges for those who will never be beneath its destruction?" Do read 👇🏾
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
#pastoralism Maintaining biodiversity of rangelands... At the Living Lightly exhibition...
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Mongabay @mongabay.com · 05/02/2025
Scientists have confirmed the presence of the Asian small-clawed otter in Nepal for the first time in more than 185 years. The last confirmed sighting was in 1839, followed by occasional unconfirmed reports. news.mongabay.com/2025/02/worl...
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World’s smallest otter makes comeback in Nepal after 185 years
KATHMANDU — Scientists have for the first time in 185 years confirmed the presence of the Asian small-clawed otter in Nepal, thrilling conservationists and researchers looking for clues to its existen...
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
New Zealand's Mount Taranaki, sacred to the Maori, has been accorded legal rights as a living person. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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New Zealand's Mount Taranaki gets same legal rights as a person
The aim is to address injustices of colonisation, including confiscating land from local tribes.
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
These cases prompt us to reflect on the relationship we want to foster with other species. Can we continue ignoring long-term captivity's negative effects on mental & physical well-being of wild animals? What does it say about us as a society when we view captivity as a form of entertainment?
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Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · 27/01/2025
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
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Elizabeth Preston @inkfish.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Animals lay eggs or birth babies. Trees make seeds...except for the ones that have live babies, like we do?! I wrote for @biographic.bsky.social about the genetics of baby-having mangrove trees, and why they might have evolved this way: www.biographic.com/how-some-tre... 🧪
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How Some Trees Evolved to Birth Live Young - bioGraphic
For mangroves, dropping babies in the dirt can be a big advantage.
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Giuliana Viglione @giulianaviglione.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
In the midst of one of the most gruesome periods of modern human history, whales experienced a rare moment of peace. Now, a long-forgotten post-war museum collection is revealing how the slaughter has literally been etched into the very fibers of those whales. www.biographic.com/how-whales-f...
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How Whales Found Peace in War - bioGraphic
A forgotten museum collection reveals how a pause in industrial whaling during World War II changed whales at the molecular level.
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Forest department folks are turning zoo keepers 🤦🏾‍♀️ Plans for yet another big safari, taking away more from forests & displacing locals... www.tribuneindia.com/news/haryana...
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Haryana eyes Vantara model for its Aravalli safari plan - The Tribune
Haryana aims to create the world’s best jungle safari in the Aravallis and is drawing inspiration from Vantara, a state-of-the-art animal rehabilitation centre owned by Reliance Industries in Jamnagar...
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Some interesting new music from The Night Flight Orchestra, Manic Street Preachers, Off Grid, My Morning Jacket... Also, the title song for the anime Dandadan by Creepy Nuts is addictive! #music
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Over 500 olive ridley turtles have died this season...
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
African baboon dies, the third animal in a few weeks in Delhi zoo. In 2023, for a story on the appalling state of zoos in India, I found this particular Delhi zoo had the worst history! How this place is still legally functioning and receiving over 27 lakh people annually is just shocking!
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Dystopia #101 SOS SOS SOS "Sorry ma'am, our firefighters are all booked."
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Botanist Kimmerer unseats the makings of a capitalistic world with the possibilities of the gift economy. Busting the illusion of self-sufficiency, Kimmerer insists all flourishing is mutual and investing in mutual well-being should be the future. Review: eletellnow.wordpress.com/long-forms/
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Gifts of an economy that forever perpetuate growth, accumulation and competition. Three words rendered purposeless, unproductive and profitless in the face of climate reality.
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
An anthology of magic realism & the supernatural conjuring up "non-homogeneous" futures. Each short story is unanimously grounded in a strong anti-caste dialect. It's immersive... open up to it. #bookrecommendation #bookreview eletellnow.wordpress.com/long-forms/
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
We've been told (by the Empire)civilisation progressed, liberated from violent ways of tribal life. But better possibilities of human existence have been evidenced: non-imperial freedoms w/ better lives, other futures. This piece on the revolution in archaeology & its role in
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
Look what arrived! :)
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
#bookreview: 1. A critical literary, cultural analysis & it's relevance to the ongoing genocide in Palestine; 2. Historical racial discrimination & denial of the Romani people & their ongoing struggle for basic rights. Both less than 100 pages, critical reads. eletellnow.wordpress.com/long-forms/
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
Stuff of life! Fig tree...
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Twenty more cheetahs for a sanctuary & 2 African elephants for zoos - to live out the enforced, administered lives for manufactured appetites: preservation of vanity. The worst kind of conservation www.livemint.com/news/india/i...
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Forever a poster and postcard fan!
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Actual forests have depleted. We continue to add plantations on this list & call it a success. But when wild animals are found in this part of green cover, we capture them, tagging them as straying animals. So, these patches are (displacing locals) & for forest dept's monocropping???
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
2024 in books: Sharing some of my favs here: #Climate/#environmentbooks I read this year-Yes, there is no separating climate change, human rights & social justice! Less is More–Jason Hickel Living with Oil & Coal-Dolly Kikon Dismantling Green Colonialism –Edited by Hamza Hamouchene, Katie Sandwell
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Unlocking climate clues often requires local insights & experience-based imaginations. New climate archives, proxies without new ways to communicate across communities will lead to new inequalities in climate science. This👇🏾 www.sciencehistory.org/stories/maga...
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Proxies for Justice
The climate history of tropical regions has been chronically understudied. Correcting the record will require new methods and new mindsets.
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Gana Kedlaya @ganak.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Who are the invisible women who also sustain India? How do religious riots, free markets, gentrification & patriarchy impact them? What can unionisation & women's movements lead to? Dixit's singular focus remains unfiltered. More in my brief review eletellnow.wordpress.com/long-forms/ #books
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