Sitting at home for the last few months, I’ve reflected on what it would mean to listen to and amplify the voices of the farmers protesting in India without being at the protest site even once.

Sitting at home for the last few months, I’ve reflected on what it would mean to listen to and amplify the voices of the farmers protesting in India without being at the protest site even once.
As I sit in my home in Serampore, India, flanked by the river Hugli and waiting for the already delayed Monsoons to arrive and bring with it some relief, in what has been a record-breaking and extraordinarily hot summer in India, I recognize that writing about water in place-based research is a self-defeating endeavor.