Dr Joya John, Assistant Professor, Literature, SIAS participated in a virtual symposium titled, Minor Literature, Major Stakes: Hindi’s Political Worlds on October 10–11, 2025 organized by New York University & Vanderbilt University.
Dr John’s paper was titled, ‘Hindi in Local, Global, and Planetary Frames: Environment, Climate Change, and the Affordances of Hindi’. The paper analysed how state discourse stymies the language of environment communication and what challenges new global or planetary discourses of climate change pose for Hindi. The presentation was a set of observations based on the work of environmentalist Anupam Mishra, climate translations and contemporary Hindi fiction and poetry.
