This is a Hybrid event. In person New Cabell Hall Rm 114. For online: ZOOM ID: 936 2956 2535 Password: 567384
For decades, indigenous communities have been resisting the building of massive dams along the Teesta River in Sikkim and West Bengal. Furthermore, complex efforts are underway to 'recharge' underground aquifers in the Himalayan foothills, ensuring a steady supply of water for irrigation. To help us understand what is at stake, Professor Emeritus Anindyo Roy synthesizes the strange physics of water with indigenous stories and songs of water-being, contextualizing the ongoing resistance to dams, the desecration of water paths and lives, and the deaths of living communities.
About Anindyo Roy
Anindyo Roy has been working among the indigenous groups of the Eastern Himalayan foothills of India since 2007, serving as mentor and counselor of rural youth. Exploring the rich shamanic traditions and the varied forms of Buddhism of these regions has enabled him to design and offer special retreats that help create an awareness of the life of mindfulness that combines the power of the sensory and the contemplative and offers new insights into human creativity and reflection. Roy retired as Associate Professor of English at Colby College, Maine, in 2020 after teaching literature for nearly thirty years.
Sponsored by the Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures in cooperation with the Department of Anthropology, James Igoe, IHGC, Debjani Ganguly, the Contemplative Sciences Center, David Germano, Black Erotic Ecologies Project, WGS, Global Studies, David Edmunds, Environmental Humanities & NIRC.
