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Meena Menon

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Mumbai
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Covers:  Environment, Climate change, Health, Politics,
Doctoral candidate, University of Leeds Ex bureau chief, The Hindu Journalist, author Riots and After in Mumbai, Reporting Pakistan, A Frayed History

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Meena Menon is an independent journalist, researcher and former Bureau chief, The Hindu. She is currently a visting post-doctoral researcher at the Leeds Arts and Humanities Research Institute, Universityof Leeds, UK. In April 2024, she was awarded a PhD on social movements from the School of History, University of Leeds, UK. She is the author of the books, Riots and After in Mumbai (Sage/Yoda Press), Reporting Pakistan(Penguin Randomhouse), and has co-authored A Frayed History, the Journ…

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Asia is warming faster than global average, making regional cooperation vital, says a new report

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By Meena Menon
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The year 2025 sends an ominous warning for the future for Asia. The continent experienced intense heat, drought, retreating glaciers, high ocean temperatures and marine heatwaves, underscoring the imperative for early warning and coordinated action during extreme weather events, according to a new report by the World Meteorological Organization.
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Change in Social Movements

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By Meena Menon
| Economic and Political Weekly Verified
Comparing Two Cases from India and South Africa How Social Movements Imagine: Anthropology of Protest and the Newer Social Movements in India and South Africaby Bobby Luthra Sinha, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge 2025; pp 312, `1,595. The capacity of communities to mobilise and forge novel forms of collective action to respond to immediate challenges is the subject of Bobby Luthra Sinha’s book. It offers a granular understanding of the theory and practice of what she calls micro social movements (MSMs).
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How official heat plans are failing India’s street vendors

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By Meena Menon
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“Khatron ke khiladi” – a player who flirts with danger. That’s among the terms that vendors in Pune who brave heat stress on the streets through the oppressive summer months use to describe themselves. Others deploy the rather-more self-deprecatory “roadvarche”’ – Marathi for “those on the road”.
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