Category fieldwork
ON THE LAURIE BAKER TRAIL
The below images are from a recent visit to the Mitraniketan Social Service Society and Clinic in Vagamon in the Western Ghats mountains of central Kerala. The Clinic was established in 1963 by Architect Laurie Baker, his wife Dr. Elizabeth Baker, Alina Cattani, and Dr. Hildagard Sina to address the needs of the local population […]
KERALA, INDIA & THE GLOBAL GAME
As the FIFA Men’s World Cup Qatar 2022 draws to a close, here are some commentaries and multimedia that highlight the globalizing spread of the world’s most popular sport – football (soccer) – from the perspective of fans and nation-states from the Global South, especially from Kerala and India. This post has been inspired by […]
AIIS SUMMER LANGUAGE PROGRAM, KERALA
I had the opportunity to participate in the AIIS Summer Language Program for Malayalam in 2020. AIIS offers intensive, immersion-based training in modern and classical South Asian languages at multiple sites in India. My 8-week intensive online training program was conducted by Dr. V.K. Bindu, the Program In-Charge of the Malayalam Language Program based in […]
CONCRETE IN COCHIN
Below are some images from preliminary dissertation fieldwork conduction by the author in Kochi, Kerala during Summer 2019.
Himalayan Transformations
The following images were clicked by the author from a recent field visit to his research site in Kandwari village, District Kangra, Himachal Pradesh.
Himalayan Materialities
The following images were clicked by the author from a recent field visit to his research site in Kandwari village, District Kangra, Himachal Pradesh.
Siddharth Menon 