Universal solutions for a greener tomorrow
Updated On: 02 February, 2025 08:10 AM IST | Mumbai | Sumedha Raikar Mhatre
A second serving of Climate Recipes dives into Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, offering wisdom on land and systems across India
Harsha Durugadda and Teja Shilpa advocate for seed travellers—individuals who distribute and exchange indigenous seeds across regions
Susie Tharu’s recipes are not about measured ingredients, carefully timed steps, or consistency standards. They are about turbulence, about unpacking and reimagining. A towering figure in India’s feminist movement and co-editor of the seminal anthology Women Writing in India: 600 B.C. to the Present, Tharu has spent decades challenging entrenched systems of power.
So when Tharu speaks to Srinivas Mangipudi and Srinivas Aditya Mopidevi—the editors (design experts) of Climate Recipes—she prescribes the act of disruption as a legitimate way to arrive at the recipe for justice. For her, simmering tensions cannot be left on a slow burn; they need to be stirred and brought to a boil. Tharu’s work is all about the transformative element in cultural and ecological spaces—be it creating a counter-archive of unheard, unsung women writers or building a sisterhood of “Bata chappal women”. Any conversation around preserving recipes or practices is, for her, as much about reclaiming spaces in the dominant narrative. The octogenarian derives immense joy till date in challenging hierarchies and entitlement coming from caste, class and gender.
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