“Oh, hey!” Dana and Gautam spot us through an open door as we are being shown to our rooms. “We’re just looking for a good place to sit still for several hours while we get our henna done. You should come find us once you get settled!” I haven’t seen…

Rain begins to patter on the metal roof. We’re relaxed across a bed-like eating area, shoes off, the hammered metal tureens and empty platters of another finished feast strewn across the low table. “Maybe,” I murmur to Eileen, eyes on the gathering clouds, “we should stay for chai and ice…

“You are traveling on an invalid ticket,” our English-speaking fellow passenger explains on behalf of the ticket checker. “Actually, this is a crime in India.” Eileen reserved our train tickets from Jaipur to Udaipur online through a service called 12Go. It transpires that although 12Go did buy an Indian Rail…

Every day, after the rain, the hotel staff, on hands and knees, use rags to dry the marble floors. This is not a small hotel; it’s palatial in a literal sense. Each floor has a different set of terraces and courtyards. There are several fountains, several shrines, urns and statues…

This is a fairly rough piece, more contemplative than complete. It’s written after reading Kukutai & Taylor’s “Indigenous Data Sovereignty: Towards an Agenda”, which I recommend (especially the Desi Rodriguez-Lonebear piece). A much shorter introduction to Indigenous Data Sovereignty can be found as a University of Toronto research guide. Voices…

The rain comes at first like a welcome mist, faint droplets on our overheated skin. Sometimes it fades back away; sometimes it builds to a squall. The first faint droplets catch us as we enter Nahagarh Fort. …

The New Delhi airport's domestic terminal doesn't have any carpeting or quiet dead-end corners. I spot one row of armrest-free bench, but the seats are too widely spaced for lying down. So I make my bed immediately behind a row of seats a family is occupying near my gate: a…

This post was originally published at envirodatagov.org, at this link. Defining healthcare as a responsibility of good government could transform our ability to expect better environmental governance. Though corporations are technically subject to environmental laws, as EDGI has thoroughly documented, these laws are largely unenforced, not effective as deterrents when…

Yuk’ei! Waa saa iyatee? Kelsey yoo xat duwasaakw. Ch’aak naax xat sitee, t’aakdeintaan yadi. I’m Kelsey. I’m Tlingit, born here in Duwamish and Coast Salish territory, raised in Snohomish territory, and still very tied to my Alaska Native Tlingit culture. …