Drawing on her award winning 2021 book 'Landscapes of Loss: The Story Of An Indian Drought', Kavitha Iyer will examine climate distress in Marathwada as structural, not episodic. Not just at moments of farmer suicides or failed crops, climate uncertainty now reshapes agrarian life exhaustively, prompting survival mechanisms. Marathwada is no outlier. It is an early warning of India’s climate future.
Mumbai based Kavitha Iyer an independent researcher and author of the award winning book 'Landscapes Of Loss: The Story Of An Indian Drought' (Harper Collins 2021). She is currently working on her next book, which is on the theme of India's migrant workers. She believes there is no better way to see and experience the marvel that is India than through the eyes and lived realities of rural Indians