Navigating 'anthropy' and straddling paradoxes, I am a systems-thinking ecologist based in India. I take interest in the poetics and politics of kinship. My lifework is anchored in cultivating courageous ecocultural imaginations with a deep decolonial ethic to meet the vicissitudinous polycrises.At Dancing with Mountains (Chennai), I work with Dr Bayo Akomolafe in supporting translocal communities of practice to converge, commune, and experiment around the emergent fields of postactivism and ontofugitivty. I also write a monthly digest, the climate onion, to support bottoms-up ecological advocacies and knowledge building in India. I am a 2024 Post Growth Fellow, 2023 Bioleadership Fellow, and associated with the Postnatural Independent Program (2024).In futuring just systems, I believe in ideals of citizen satyagraha, coliberation, and ecoswaraj - expressions that feels increasingly relevant and need to be front and center of the "climate" conundrum. Drawing inspirations from ecofeminist philosophies and the rich tapestries of traditional ecological knowledge systems, I seek for deepening relationships with Gaian systems while dwelling in radical glocal possiblities and imaginaries. Having been around the block — previously, as a capital markets trader where I had my reckoning with the pervasive hyperindividualism inhabiting our major extractive worksectors; living in an eco-township for a year where an embodied errancy allowed me to rechart my life paths and become grounded in local projects; then as a sustainability zealot solving for the megawaste crises flooding our urbanscapes; as a climate science communicator and activist organizing with XR in India and the UK — I finally locate myself in the larger space field of cultural and systems transformations. I also draw deeply from my experiences in ecological economics and climate justice movements, my engaged ecology studies at Schumacher College, and as a keen learner from autonomous localised living communes (spent considerable time in Auroville, IN too) like Rojava that are embodying postcapitalist models.I prefer living in the liminal, and transgressing normative boundaries of possibilities. My current dwellings are around - postactivism as a prism for manifold approaches and organising capabilities to subvert our hegemonic modernity;- embodied place-based praxis and gestures towards tackling epistemic injustices as we stumble into a Humilocene (David Abram).
