Dr Joya John, Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS presented a paper on 30 May 2025, titled ‘Yeh Prithvi Rahegi: Planetarity in the Non-Anglophone Imaginary’. The paper was part of a 3-day panel titled Comparing Hindi Literature: Then and Now in the World at the Annual Comparative Literature Association (ACLA) conference. Dr John’s paper analysed how contemporary Hindi poets have drawn on environmental and climate change discourse to craft new metaphors and figures in poetry. Through a close reading of the figure of Prithvi, she argued that both scientific ideas of planetary habitability and older cosmological and affective senses of the Earth will continue to mediate cultural knowledge of climate change.
