Adhavan Sivaraj

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

Join us today evening at 6:30pm IST for an information call with the facilitators to discuss what the course will engage with! #today :
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Applications for Trimester 01 is open!
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Living Labs Institute Living Labs Institute is a place-based institute fostering transdisplinary learning-collaborations to imagine, construct and pursue alternative pathways of differential development.

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.
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As a line goes in a Sasikumar song, 'Kaatrodu pattam pola', I hope to continue flying with the winds like a kite. Read my past 2 weeks' notes at adhavansivaraj.xyz/posts/2025/0...

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.

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)

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I share this in the hopes that its vision is strengthened by conversation, joined efforts and comments. (5/5)

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

I wanted to understand how spatially dispersed these events where. Where do lynchings happen? Why do they happen particularly in certain states? What parties are often involved? Who is most often involved in spewing hate? These were my naive questions. (3/5)

Hindutva Watch Hindutva Watch is an independent research initiative to monitor the reports of attacks on the members of minority and marginalised communities for their faith by the radicalised Hindus and the Hindutv...

I had seen the instagram videos that HindutvaWatch.org posted. They were of a genre that was so starkly violent for me then, now they are more frequent and normalised than ever. (2/5)

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)

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.

India's states are in a battle for fair representation in the parliament. We explain India’s delimitation issue and why it is controversial.

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This week I write about visiting Hara, Idur Kunjyadi, in Kundapura Taluka. Our interactions around the community between in Hara and beaches

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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...

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...

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.

Vikatan, a Tamil magazine's website, has been blocked just because they tried to show the realities of PM's visit to the USA.

This week's notes at adhavansivaraj.xyz/posts/2025/0...

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...

‘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...

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

Deleted my account finally. I'm all yours bsky, hope more of the indian progressive people move here! #deletedTwitter

This week's notes at adhavansivaraj.xyz/posts/2025/0...

Hello!

With sangeetha, @aruvu-collab.bsky.social @team-yuvaa.bsky.social

#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

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...

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...

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!

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.

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