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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Visited Mahatma Jyotiba & Savitri Bai Fule Vada. I spent time in kitchen, freshly coated by dung ( लीपाई). Thought of Savitri Bai working there every day. All captions were in Marathi, wish Hindi & English translation was available. Wondered why it's not Mahatma Jyotiba Fule & Savitri Bai Fule Vada.

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

Listening to some of the finest minds on Oral History Framework & Archiving Ethically Urvashi Butalia, Vrunda Pathare Aniket Alam Surajit Sarkar, Sanghamitra Chatterjee Sumallya Mukhopadhyay Maya Dodd, Dipika. S & others who joined online - Indira Chowdhury, K. Lalita, Venkat Shrinivasan...

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

While rush to bathe #TriveniSangam doesn't reduce, hundreds of Shiva temples remain submerged in Sardar Sarovar dam, including the one considered Swayambhu, The Shulpaneshwar temple where legends say Aswathama lit a lamp everyday. Hear short clip. youtu.be/TdrD2xnT7y4?...

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Kasturba, remembering her on her death anniversary. One of the most deserving women who has not found a place her worth in History, not even in Gandhian history, which has seen her mostly as just a subordinate. nandinikoza.blogspot.com/2018/09/givi...

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Giving Kasturaba her due on her Death Anniversary

Even the most deserving of women do not find a place that equals their worth in history. Kasturba is one such woman whose contribu...

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Song by Dalit poet Shanker Painter, my favourite, in my mother tongue Gujarati with translation in English . Do please read. nandinikoza.blogspot.com/2016/08/dali...

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Dalit Literature in Gujarat- some reflections

After having written two blog posts on Gujarati literature, I wished to write the third on the Dalit literature in Gujarat. The wi...

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Oral History Association of India and Kerala Museum host the 10th annual conference of @OHAI_India on costal histories on 24, 25, 26 January 2025. In solidarity.

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

3 Adivasi leaders of Gujarat debunk the claim of government that oustees of Sardar Sarovar dam were rehabilitated properly. Listen to the oral history interview and please circulate. oralhistorynarmada.in/impact-of-su...

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Gift books in 2025/ book promotion : 4 out of 5 of my books available on Amazon and 2 on Flipkart.

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

What better place to spend an absolutely quiet New year eve, all by oneself than at a writer's paradise @Sangam house, Jamun!

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Padma Vibhushan Baba Amte, the state showered him with awards but didn't pay heed to his wisdom. His home Nijbal, was drowned out by the Sardar Sarovar #dam, where he lived and fought against the dam for over a decade. Remembering Baba on his birthday.

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Holidays r here, many will visit Statue of Unity.But remember, Sardar Sarovar Dam & Kevadia colony, where infrastructure for tourism is built, is on #tribal lands. Listen to Adivasi leader Kapilaben to know the injustice brought upon by dispossession of people. oralhistorynarmada.in/women-leader...

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The Late Kapila (ben) Tadvi – Oral History Narmada

Kapilaben, one among the top tribal leaders of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) in Gujarat, who sadly passed away only very recently as I write this in March 2021, was from village Vaghadia.

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Haldi, home grow organic, fresh out of soil, two different fresh achars, with most ingredients home grown, including ginger, haldi, lemon, kadipatta, chilli. Oil from lakdi ghani, hing from Songadh, had home grown mustard seeds too but used up. 🙃

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

#Oral #History methodology differs from other #Research : Interviewing Chaganbhai Kevat in 2008 and once again in 2024, 16 years later. Before the Sardar Sarovar Dam was built and after many years of its completion.

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

No, this submerged structure is not a #Mosque but a Shiv #Temple, drowned out in Bargi dam on river Narmada, for 30 years. On 6th December, my heart aches remembering the demolition of #Babri Masjid that shook my belief in, Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam- That The World Is One Family. Photo: Rajkumar Sinha

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Visual #pollution of #Mumbai is saddening. The ugly light poles on the beach were bad enough obstructing view of sea. Now, one more road being built in the sea! Coming generation will not know what pristine sea once looked like. But then, air pollution will be so high, visibility will be down to 0.

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Instead of digging under #Mosques, if Sardar Sarovar #Dam on #River Narmada is emptied, several historical #Temple complexes will emerge, like this one at village Chikhalda in Madhya Pradesh. Historical temples like Shulpaneshwar, Hapeshwar, Koteshwar & hundreds of others remain submerged in dam.

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Narmada now a reservoir of Sardar Sarovar #Dam, is heavily silted and polluted. Livestock be it buffaloes or goats can no longer graze or even drink freely as the river banks on both side are drowned out. They are now stall fed and drinking water is provided to them through motorised pumps

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Narmada, once a flowing River, now a reservoir of Sardar Sarovar Dam.

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Nandi, submerged in the Sardar Sarovar #Dam waters at village Chikhalda for several months, thankfully emerged out of the waters this year too as reservoir waters recede. Is it to me alone that he looks so totally bewildered? :-(

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Temples, that are historical stand firm inspite of repeated submergence in the Sardar Sarovar #Dam on river #Narmada but new construction collapses. These old temples should have been relocated by the government or atleast properly documented

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

"River Narmada", no longer a River but a reservoir of the Sardar Sarovar #Dam. Parikramavasis can no longer walk on her banks but on highway for kilometres.The Narmada, in which we drank water directly, is now so filthy & stinking a reservoir that I found it difficult to step in.

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Book, the struggle for Narmada, an oral history of people's resistance against a mega dam on River Narmada in India. Do order and read the history as narrated by the Adivasi/Tribal leaders. www.amazon.com/Struggle-Nar...

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Indian businessman indicated in USA brings shame on the country. Sad state of affairs. Gautam Adani is one of the biggest supporters of the right wing party in power in India, the Bhartiya Janta Party.

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

मत दिलं Voted મત આપ્યો

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Nandini Oza @nandinioza.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Books on #Adivasi #movements in India, a must read list of 20 & The Struggle for Narmada features in the list. PubliOrient Blackswan Private Limited

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