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Adhavan Sivaraj

@social.adhavansivaraj.xyz
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Data, humanities, politics Maintaining constitutional.observer, safeyelli.in. Working with @aruvu.org @livinglabs.institute @livinglabs.network adhavansivaraj.xyz

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dakkhanke.bsky.social @dakkhanke.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
🍀Launching on May 15th!🍀 A collaborative making of a living lab and social enterprise with artisans and craft communities of the region. We are ready to open this to the world! Dakkhan Ke - A living Lab and Social enterprise… more about it in the coming days!
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Living Labs Institute @livinglabs.institute · 17/09/2025
Course: MATERNAL ARCHIVES OF SONGS 🎵 Explore the tapestry of maternal folk song practices that have been passed down through generations! Our upcoming course invites you to learn: The ability to produce narratives like stories, essays or visual works from field-based materials
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Living Labs Institute @livinglabs.institute · 17/09/2025
Join us today evening at 6:30pm IST for an information call with the facilitators to discuss what the course will engage with! #today : calendar.app.google/nixouq8CvnBB...
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Living Labs Institute @livinglabs.institute · 16/09/2025
Applications for Trimester 01 is open! livinglabs.institute/apply/
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We are excited to create a learning space that is collaborative, practice-based, and open to diverse ways of learning engagement. Our application process is designed to ensure meaningful alignment bet...
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Living Labs Institute @livinglabs.institute · 16/09/2025
LAUNCHING: Living Labs Institute We’re excited to announce the launch of Living Labs Institute. We invite to you all to reimagine learning through place-based approaches+co-creating alternative pathways for locally rooted actions. Made with care. livinglabs.institute
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Living Labs Institute is a place-based institute fostering transdisplinary learning-collaborations to imagine, construct and pursue alternative pathways of differential development.
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 10/05/2025
I've carried myself through this week very lightly. Much has been happening: I drove through Karnataka and Andhra. I'm back in Bidar after a long time.
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 04/05/2025
That was two years ago, alongside developing, I began to understand more about the ecosystem of hate online and offline in the country. Today, I want to share Where does Hate live? A spatial explorer that allows you to understand (to some extent) this. (4/5) where-does-hate-live.netlify.app
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 04/05/2025
It was in the early years of my college life that I had noticed the kind of violence and hate that was being videod and shared by social media. From that exposure, and my want to learn sprung: 'Where does Hate live?' A spatial explorer of #news media reporting on #hate and #misinformation (1/5)
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Reuters Graphics @graphics.reuters.com · 14/03/2025
India's states are in a battle for fair representation in the parliament. We explain India’s delimitation issue and why it is controversial. www.reuters.com/graphics/IND...
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North vs South India: Controversial delimitation exercise explained
Graphics illustrate the disproportionate growth in population across Indian states and why is it concerning for upcoming delimitation exercise.
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 02/03/2025
This week I write about visiting Hara, Idur Kunjyadi, in Kundapura Taluka. Our interactions around the community between in Hara and beaches adhavansivaraj.xyz/posts/2025/0...
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 24/02/2025
In the past week's notes I write about Channapatna, Yelahanka losing Avalahalli and other thoughts at. @vonter.bsky.social is overly represented in this one, he thinks. adhavansivaraj.xyz/posts/2025/0...
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 18/02/2025
In last week's notes, I talk about the Living Lightly exhibit, understanding sustainable lifestyles from the perspective they write from, the Sollisai Sistahs and news archives coming from the context of hindutvawatch.org read at: adhavansivaraj.xyz/posts/2025/0...
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sourav/सौरभ/ソウラヴ @gappi-bihari.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Vikatan, a Tamil magazine's website, has been blocked just because they tried to show the realities of PM's visit to the USA.
Trump and Modi in suits sitting on couches; Modi is in chains and looking at Trump with a serious expression, and Trump is laughing on him.
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 10/02/2025
This week's notes at adhavansivaraj.xyz/posts/2025/0...
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London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 08/02/2025
‘You do not suddenly start needing philosophy on your eighteenth birthday: you have always needed it. Fantasy is philosophy’s more gorgeously painted cousin.’ Katherine Rundell on children’s literature: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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Katherine Rundell · Why children’s books?
Children’s books, to a great extent because they are written for those who cannot participate in the market, can offer...
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Aruvu Collaboratory @aruvu.org · 05/02/2025
Let’s learn about cities, settlements and landscapes of Bidar through Kalyana Karnataka Karawaan! We welcome mapping enthusiasts old and new to join us for an indoor mapping meetup at Aruvu Collaboratory, Yelahanka Nodal Centre. It is co-organised by @vonter.bsky.social @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 31/01/2025
Deleted my account finally. I'm all yours bsky, hope more of the indian progressive people move here! #deletedTwitter
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 26/01/2025
This week's notes at adhavansivaraj.xyz/posts/2025/0...
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 24/01/2025
With sangeetha, @aruvu-collab.bsky.social @team-yuvaa.bsky.social
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 24/01/2025
#Chennai makkale, we are hosting this event this Sunday, the 26th at Pallikaranai. See you there! Join the telegram group for coordination at t.me/OSM_Chennai
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 18/01/2025
I write about this past week in Bidar, Basavakalyan and and all the khichdi of thoughts and things that I see everyday that are coming together in my weekly notes. You can read it at adhavansivaraj.xyz/posts/2025/0...
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 12/01/2025
Borrowing from @thejeshgn.com.web.brid.gy , I have begun to write weekly notes, to remember for myself, to remember publicly. adhavansivaraj.xyz/posts/2025/0...
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Weekly notes 1 and 2
My first weekly notes - The Constitutinal Observer, RTIs, Veganism, Chennai Book Fair and others.
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Eli Holder @elibryan.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Excited to share my latest with @rladiesrome.bsky.social on Thursday, wherein I'll: – poopoo John Snow's cholera map – trace through implications of equity-oriented public-health charts – offer some practical tips toward more equitable, expressive ways to plot group health outcomes See you then!
Cover slide for my "deathly dataviz" talk. It says "a morbid introduction to equity impacts for visualizing population health"A zoomed in screenshot of John Snow's map of cholera cases around London's broad street pump
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Wikipedia @wikipedia.org · 01/01/2025
Happy Public Domain Day! 🎉 Starting today, many new works can be freely shared and even adapted in new ways by everyone. This is why Public Domain Day is a celebration for free knowledge enthusiasts around the world. See what is entering the public domain ➡️ w.wiki/CNUL
Goldfish, painting by Matisse. Text says: It's Public Domain Day. Every year, a new wave of creative works enter the public domain – they are now free for anyone to use. However, because laws vary around the world, copyright status can change from country to country.
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 25/12/2024
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 25/12/2024
The Chennai OSM Mapping Meetup is on! 🗓 Date: 28th December 2024 (Saturday) 🕖 Time: 02:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Mapping, followed by kaapi) 📌 Meeting Point: Wimco Nagar Depot (geo:13.18396,80.30903) Join the OSM Chennai telegram group: t.me/OSM_Chennai
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 19/12/2024
Hello #Chennai makkale, me, Sangeetha along with @aruvu-collab.bsky.social will be organising a half-day #mapping party in Chennai on the 28th (Sat) of December. Who's up? We want to work on areas surrounding water bodies, northern-Chennai... DM! (1/4) #OpenStreetMap @openstreetmap.bsky.social
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Living Labs Network @livinglabs.network · 06/12/2024
⭐️Unveiling Today! ⭐️ Untold Town is the online place where we share collective experiences. Published by #LLNPress Untold logo designed by @abhiram.jois and @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz #hyderabadkarnataka #bidar #Channapatnahealthlibrary #vandse #kundapura #vadachennai
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Living Labs Network @livinglabs.network · 04/12/2024
Hi, we are new to Bluesky! LLN is a fragile transdisciplinary network situated in Hyderabad-Karnataka region. We are part of collective of collectives along with Aruvu collab and Team YUVAA ( who are yet to debut in #bsky) To know more have a look at our recently launched web journal untold.town
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 03/12/2024
Adding Mother Cow, Mother India by Yamini Narayanan to this list. This is my first reading of such a comprehensive, grounded and well-places/argued take on these many hidden lives
A photo of the cover of the book Mother Cow, Mother India. The cover is a photograph of a calf in a dark backdrop, with shiny skin, tied to something. The calf appears to look athe reader with kind eyes.
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 01/12/2024
An excerpt from Gandhi's speech in Bettiah (West Champaran, Bihar) about the violence done by Hindus to bovines. Photograph from Yamini Naryanan' s Mother Cow, Mother India.
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Aman Bhargava @aman.bh · 19/11/2024
New interactive map project! We mapped Bangalore's natural water drains to show how water flows and collects, and some identified locations which flood often. w/ @vonter.bsky.social Happy with the UI in this one (and the little animations) :) 🔗 diagramchasing.fun/2024/blr-water-log
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 11/11/2024
Friend from Maharashtra sends me this. #hindutva
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 09/11/2024
I've been wanting to read/reflect/write on the intersections of being vegan, caste and being progressive here in India. Creating a reading list of perspectives for that: adhavansivaraj.xyz/posts/2024/r... If you'd like to add to it, please dm/reply
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A reading list for opinions and critiques on Veganism and Caste in India
Attemping a crowd sourced list of readings.
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Neelima Vallangi @neelima.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Now that there's good traction here, I hope researchers will start posting their publication threads on bsky. Missing that from Twitter, where I would come across so many interesting papers and story ideas on any given day!
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 08/11/2024
Early morning at Vikarabad station, Telengana. Close to the Karnataka border. The Blr - Bidar train stops for 45 minutes to reverse the engine. Which i find absolutely fascinating.
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 08/11/2024
I wonder how many people publicly read physical books these days. Yesterday I apparently mistaken for a person doing their PhD simply because i was reading from a bunch of papers.
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Adhavan Sivaraj @social.adhavansivaraj.xyz · 14/12/2023
Safe Yelli (safeyelli.in) is hosting a "Show, Tell and Map" party in collaboration with OSM Bengaluru on 23rd December in Yelahanka New Town, #Bengaluru. Join us!
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