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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

4 years since my close friend #MatthewMather passed away, I still miss his creativity, caring nature and the way he lived life to the fullest. He died way too young, but left an incredible legacy through the sci-fi worlds he created, in the books he wrote. Please check out some these amazing titles!

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Happy to share my latest travel article "Buddhist Mountain Temples of Bhutan" in the latest issue of Tashi Delek Magazine. Buddhist temples are perhaps one of the most striking and culturally-spiritually profound features of the Bhutanese landscape. Stay tuned for the book! #Bhutan #Buddhism #peace

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

There is still a long road ahead of us, as battles that were won long ago by feminists like @gloriasteinem.bsky.social, have recently come undone by narrow-minded shortsighted patriarchs & broligarchs. Rest in Power Gloria. We got this. We will finish what you and others started. We shall overcome.

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

As tributes pour in from all over the world they speak to her ability to listen to people. I met her on her book tour for "Revolution from Within". The book changed my life. She told me I was doing an amazing but difficult thing as a woman engineer, that needed doing, & to keep dong it. I felt seen.

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

She was a role model for many women, and men. Her radical approach to bringing about much needed social change. Her radical writing. Her epic quotes. Her ability to bring people together to mobilize for change. She was an important leader and symbol for the #feminist movement. Rest in Power Gloria.

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Among a week of unrelenting losses, an icon and feminist trailblazer @gloriasteinem.bsky.social passes away. One of the most influential leaders of the 2nd wave of #feminism. She was radical. An intellectual. An activist. A feminist. A journalist. A writer. An innovator. Unapologetic. Rest in power.

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Happy to share my 1st article on Substack on the destruction from the flash flood in Nepal, "Nepal: 'The Perfect' Climate Storm - When flash floods, GLOFs, earthquakes and overdevelopment collide together in the time of the climate emergency". Please check it out and subscribe! #climate #Nepal #GLOF

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Nepal: “The Perfect” Climate Storm

When Flash floods, GLOFs, Earthquakes and Overdevelopment Collide Together in the Time of the Climate Emergency

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Climate loss and damage funds must go to countries like #Nepal, who are at the frontline of the climate crisis, but did little to bring about the #climate emergency. This is right. We need to fix an economic system based on endless growth that externalizes environmental costs. This is long overdue.

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Overconsumption and climate emissions generated in the global north, beyond its fair fare, generate climate loss and damage in the global south. This is unjust. The global north takes needs to take responsibility for #climate loss and damage it is responsible for in the #globalsouth. This is just.

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Destabilization of Himalayan glaciers due to rising temperatures is caused by human activity. Some countries emit more CO2 than their fair share. Nepal emits far below its fair share. People in #Nepal bear the brunt of climate emissions generated elsewhere on the planet. This is not fair. #climate

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Deeply shaken by the news out of #Nepal. A GLOF (glacial lake outbursts burst) so strong that it simulated an earthquake of 5.2, caused a wall of water to crash down, tearing through dams, towns, bridges - the cause of the horrific loss of life and destruction that followed. This is climatechange.

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

My thoughts are with people whose lives were destroyed in #Nepal. So many lost their lives, families, friends, homes, land, communities, crops, animals, livelihoods. All of that, now gone. Hundreds of people are missing. Not to mention loss of animal life and environments. This is climate change.

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Excited that my first article on #Buddhism has just been published: "Towards Mindful Development: Experiences of Wellbeing and Environmental Consciousness in African and Himalayan Cultural Contexts", in "Science, Meditation and Mindfulness: Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Vajrayana Buddhism".

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Delighted to share my latest article on "The Majestic Mountain Fortress-Temples of #Bhutan" in my regular travel column in this issue of Tashi Delek, Drukair's inflight magazine. Stay tuned, a book containing this article, and all my other articles (of which there are now many!) is being planned.

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Excited about our hybrid panel "Is There a Global South Feminist Economics" at @iaffe.bsky.social on July 11th at 9:15 am Cali Columbia time (10:15 am EST) room 104D - with Chipo Hungwe, Jennifer Cohen, Amina Hersi, Alison Vasconez, myself, and inputs from Rachel Noble, Myrah Butt, Anam Perez Butt.

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Happy 91st Birthday to His Holiness The Dalai Lama, who continues to be an inspiration to the world. An Ocean of wisdom. May peace and kindness prevail in the world. 🙏🏼 #FreeTibet

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Excited to present a paper on global south and decolonial perspectives on #degrowth at the @pollenetwork.bsky.social conference next week in Barcelona, Spain, on the amazing panel on real existing degrowth (RED) organized by @giorgoskallis.bsky.social and his team. Takes place at 11 am on July 2nd.

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

I was sad to learn about the passing away of fellow Tibetan & Buddhist studies colleague and friend Dr Robert A.F. Thurman. I met him when he was giving a lecture in Bhutan. I was touched by his enthusiastic and encouraging words about my anthropological research in the country. Om mani padme hum 🙏🏼

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

My thoughts are with everyone in Bhutan today, as a major 5.6 magnitude earthquake hit Punakha. I hope everyone is safe, and that it did not cause too much trauma or damage. I am thinking of friends, colleagues, neighbors and all sentient beings in Bhutan. Please stay safe. 🙏🏼 #bhutan #earthquake

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Following on the short in-memoriam I wrote for my mentor, friend and fellow #anthropologist Joachim Voss for @americananthro.bsky.social, I am honored to share the longer full-length version published by @cas-sca.bsky.social with moving quotes from #anthropologists James Fairhead and Johan Pottier.

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In Memoriam – Joachim Voss – CASCA

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

As women gather from all over the world in Kathmandu to discuss #pastoralism & #rangelands I’m happy to share this edited volume published by #ICIMOD in 2016. While a decade has passed, issues of #gender & pastoralism continue to remain at the margins of development. www.academia.edu/9913252/Gend...

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

My in-memorium for my mentor, friend and fellow-anthropologist, Joachim Voss published today in #Anthropology News of @americananthro.bsky.social. I am grateful to remembrances from James Fairhead and Johan Pottier, part of the same anthropological lineage that includes me, with Joachim at its lead.

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In Memoriam: Joachim Voss - Anthropology News

1947–2026 Joachim Voss, whose research and leadership expanded understanding of sociocultural dimensions of agriculture and development, died April 4. He

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

Excited to see a fellow #anthropologist win the #PulitzerPrize in non-fiction literature. Can't wait to read this! The rise in homelessness is an urgent topic, especially as it's driven by a heartless, dehumanizing economic system that promotes GDP at-all-costs, and rampant individualism. #degrowth

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Brian Goldstone

A feat of reportage, analysis and storytelling focusing on the issues that have created a national crisis of family homelessness among the so-called working poor.

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

May the 4th be with you to protect the pale blue dot we call home. There is no planet B 🌍 May we have the wisdom to preserve & conserve all its resources, including all sentient beings we share our planet with. #Climate #adaptation and mitigation are the only way. We have the solutions. Use them! 🌏

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Delighted to share my latest article on "The Prayer Flags of Bhutan" in the May-June issue of Tashi Delek, the inflight magazine of Drukair. The article explores the history, cultural meanings and practices of prayer flags in the Himalayan Kingdom. Stay tuned for the book! #Bhutan #Bhutantravel

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

@jasonhickel.bsky.social SAPs were a neoliberal project aimed at rolling back of the State (ie social sevices, agricultural extension, etc). They increased women’s unpaid household, care and farming work burdens in the global south, and exacerbated gendered poverty (income, time) and inequalities.

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Jason Hickel @jasonhickel.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

What is the impact of IMF structural adjustment on social outcomes in the global South? Our analysis in the BMJ Global Health compiles evidence from existing empirical studies with advanced methods. The record is devastating. Buckle up:🧵 gh.bmj.com/content/bmjg...

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Delighted to attend a pivotal conference on “Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth” in Geneva last week, organized by the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights. I'm thrilled to have contributed 2 written inputs into the U.N. “Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth”. #degrowth

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

How to carry out the dumbest diplomatic feat in history. 1) Strait of Hormuz open. 2) attack Iran 3) threaten Iran as they retaliate by blocking Hormuz. 4) take over” blocking of Hormuz. 5) both action and reaction block supply of oil, which lowers carbon emissions, something they don’t believe in.

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

This written record of threats to commit war crimes and genocide will be helpful in the future as evidence to prosecutors at The Hague. #25thamendmentnow

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Neoliberal capitalism and the broligrach billionaire class are more interested in sustaining profits, cheap access to resources and continued extraction of dirty fossil fuels at any cost (including unlawful wars and genocide), than it is about human rights, dignity, international law or peace.

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

For all humanity. Artemis II mission to the moon. 🚀 🌒 👩‍🚀

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

No Kings. No war. No ICE. No broligarchs. No pedophiles. Peaceful nonviolent resistance is the way. Protest on March 28th. #epsteinfiles #nokingsmovement #nokings

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Exciting to be part of the panel on "Feminist Perspectives on #BeyondGDP in Asia" organized by Oxfam in Asia, with Naila Kabeer, Myrah Butt, April Pham, Tripiti Rai, Mariam Moussa. The interest in this panel has been great. Here are key take-aways from the discussion (more to come!). #degrowth

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Delighted that my working paper with Manohara Khadka on "Gender and Pastoralism in the Rangelands of the Himalayas: Knowledge, Culture and Livelihoods at the Margins of the Margin" has 500 reads. The topic is especially important this year, the International Year of #Rangelands and #Pastoralism.

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Happy to share my latest travel article "Bhutan, A Haven for Travel" in Tashi Delek Magazine in my regular column in the inflight magazine of Drukair Royal Bhutan Airlines. This is another small piece as part of my book on Bhutan. More on this soon! #Bhutan #Bhutantravel #Bhutantours #happiness

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Moving Beyond GDP in Asia A timely discussion that challenges growth-centric development models and reimagines wellbeing through feminist, ecological, and decolonial lenses. Online webinar with Tripti Rai, Mariam Moussa, April Porteria, Ritu Verma, Naila Kabeer. Wed March 11th, 3pm Bangkok time.

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

Webinar: Feminist Perspectives on Beyond GDP in Asia. This webinar explores how alternative economic frameworks can confront inequality, advance justice, and reshape national wellbeing metrics across Asia. Wednesday March 11th, 3 pm Thailand. Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6fb5db...

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Operation Epic Diversion. Release ALL the Epstein files.

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Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️ @rvermapuri.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Operation Epic Diversion. Release ALL the Epstein files.

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