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The South Asia Forum is honoured to celebrate the life and work of Tarun Bhartiya (1970-2025) with an event on Em No Nahi, <\/i>a photobook published in 2025 by Yaarbal Books<\/a>. Em No Nahi <\/i>collects notes and images from Bhartiya’s engagements with movements against uranium mining in Meghalaya, northeast India.<\/span><\/p>\n About the book: <\/strong>A refusal to give up land for mining uranium by the 85-year-old Kong Spillity turned into a rallying cry for people in the Khasi hills. Photographer Tarun Bhartiya documents a moving celebration of civic resistatnce.<\/i><\/p>\n Tarun Bhartiya <\/b>(1970-2025) was a documentary filmmaker, poet, photographer and social activist. <\/span><\/p>\n Angela Rangad <\/b>is a campaigner for democratic rights and a socialist, feminist activist from Meghalaya. <\/span><\/p>\n Bengt G Karlsson <\/b>is Professor of Social Anthropology at Stockholm University\u00a0 <\/span>and the author of Unruly Hills <\/i>(Berghahn, 2011).<\/span><\/p>\n Rangad and Karlsson will be in conversation with Amit Rai<\/b>, co-Director of the South Asia Forum and Reader in Creative Industries and Arts Organisation at QMUL.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n All welcome. No registration required. Books will be available for purchase at discounted price at the event.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The South Asia Forum is honoured to celebrate the life and work of Tarun Bhartiya (1970-2025) with an event on Em No Nahi, a photobook published in 2025 by Yaarbal Books. Em No Nahi collects notes and images from Bhartiya’s engagements with movements against uranium mining in Meghalaya, northeast India. About the book: A refusal […] Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1121,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116\/revisions\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.history.qmul.ac.uk\/southasia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}