Rinan Shah

Hits and misses: water-based climate change adaptation interventions for agriculture in South Asia

N R Lakshmikantha, Rinan Shah, Veena Srinivasan, Aditi Mukherji

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Ways of storing and using water: Experiences of uneven water scarcity in a water-rich region

Rinan Shah

Communities in Darjeeling town have been experiencing and coping with water scarcity for decades. Developmental history points towards fragmented governance and inefficient infrastructural interventions, which have led to uneven access to water defined by physical and political aspects at the household level. …

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Caring for Glaciers

Rinan Shah

The book Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas highlights the theme through its title—care and affective relationship set in Sham, Ladakh, where glaciers are synonymous with the region. This book argues that the ethics of care for non-humans, …

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Caring for Glaciers: Land, Animals, and Humanity in the Himalayas

Rinan Shah

Marginality and Informality in Domestic Water Scarcity: Case of a Self-Service Mountain Town

Rinan Shah

Marginalization of the mountain regions is manifold – environmental, political and financial. These get exacerbated by the geographical distance from administrative and development centers. Marginalization can be categorized as societal and spatial. For Darjeeling, West Bengal, the marginalization is as much economic …

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Book review - Cultivating the Nile: the everyday politics of water in Egypt

Tanvi Agrawal, Rinan Shah, Rashmi Darshan Mahajan, Anav Vora

Book review of “Cultivating the Nile: The Everyday Politics of Water in Egypt” written by Jessica Barnes (2014). The book presents the everyday interactions of the communities and the state with the Nile River.

Conundrum or paradox: deconstructing the spurious case of water scarcity in the Himalayan Region through an institutional economics narrative

Rinan Shah, Shrinivas Badiger

Abstract Water scarcity in mountain regions such as the Himalaya has been studied with a pre-existing notion of scarcity justified by decades of communities' suffering from physical water shortages combined by difficulties of access. The Eastern Himalayan Region (EHR) of India receives …

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