Dr Ritu Verma (Ritz) 🌍 🌏 🕊️
@rvermapuri
Anthropologist • Political Ecologist • Author • Photographer • Adventurer • Thinking out of the box • Acting with a conscience Degrowth • Wellbeing Alternatives • Climate Change • Loss&Damage • Development • Decoloniality • Bhutan • Madagascar • Kenya
Excited that my first article on #Buddhism has just been published: "Towards Mindful Development: Experiences of Wellbeing and Environmental Consciousness in African and Himalayan Cultural Contexts", in "Science, Meditation and Mindfulness: Proceedings of the 5th Conference on Vajrayana Buddhism".
Delighted to share my latest article on "The Majestic Mountain Fortress-Temples of #Bhutan" in my regular travel column in this issue of Tashi Delek, Drukair's inflight magazine. Stay tuned, a book containing this article, and all my other articles (of which there are now many!) is being planned.
Excited about our hybrid panel "Is There a Global South Feminist Economics" at @iaffe.bsky.social on July 11th at 9:15 am Cali Columbia time (10:15 am EST) room 104D - with Chipo Hungwe, Jennifer Cohen, Amina Hersi, Alison Vasconez, myself, and inputs from Rachel Noble, Myrah Butt, Anam Perez Butt.
No words necessary. Okay, maybe just one. Karma. #fifaworldcup #footballworldcup
Happy 91st Birthday to His Holiness The Dalai Lama, who continues to be an inspiration to the world. An Ocean of wisdom. May peace and kindness prevail in the world. 🙏🏼 #FreeTibet
Excited to present a paper on global south and decolonial perspectives on #degrowth at the @pollenetwork.bsky.social conference next week in Barcelona, Spain, on the amazing panel on real existing degrowth (RED) organized by @giorgoskallis.bsky.social and his team. Takes place at 11 am on July 2nd.
I was sad to learn about the passing away of fellow Tibetan & Buddhist studies colleague and friend Dr Robert A.F. Thurman. I met him when he was giving a lecture in Bhutan. I was touched by his enthusiastic and encouraging words about my anthropological research in the country. Om mani padme hum 🙏🏼
My thoughts are with everyone in Bhutan today, as a major 5.6 magnitude earthquake hit Punakha. I hope everyone is safe, and that it did not cause too much trauma or damage. I am thinking of friends, colleagues, neighbors and all sentient beings in Bhutan. Please stay safe. 🙏🏼 #bhutan #earthquake
My thoughts are with everyone in Bhutan today, as a major 5.6 magnitude earthquake hit Punakha. I hope everyone is safe, and that it did not cause too much trauma or damage. I am thinking of friends, colleagues, neighbors and all sentient beings. Please stay safe. 🙏🏼 #bhutan #earthquake
As women gather from all over the world in Kathmandu to discuss #pastoralism & #rangelands I’m happy to share this edited volume published by #ICIMOD in 2016. While a decade has passed, issues of #gender & pastoralism continue to remain at the margins of development. www.academia.edu/9913252/Gend...
May the 4th be with you to protect the pale blue dot we call home. There is no planet B 🌍 May we have the wisdom to preserve & conserve all its resources, including all sentient beings we share our planet with. #Climate #adaptation and mitigation are the only way. We have the solutions. Use them! 🌏
The world must achieve gender equality. That’s all. #gender #genderequality #genderequity #feminism #genderequalitybeyondgdp
Delighted to share my latest article on "The Prayer Flags of Bhutan" in the May-June issue of Tashi Delek, the inflight magazine of Drukair. The article explores the history, cultural meanings and practices of prayer flags in the Himalayan Kingdom. Stay tuned for the book! #Bhutan #Bhutantravel
Delighted to attend a pivotal conference on “Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth” in Geneva last week, organized by the UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty and Human Rights. I'm thrilled to have contributed 2 written inputs into the U.N. “Roadmap for Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth”. #degrowth
This written record of threats to commit war crimes and genocide will be helpful in the future as evidence to prosecutors at The Hague. #25thamendmentnow
For all humanity. Artemis II mission to the moon. 🚀 🌒 👩🚀
Exciting to be part of the panel on "Feminist Perspectives on #BeyondGDP in Asia" organized by Oxfam in Asia, with Naila Kabeer, Myrah Butt, April Pham, Tripiti Rai, Mariam Moussa. The interest in this panel has been great. Here are key take-aways from the discussion (more to come!). #degrowth
Delighted that my working paper with Manohara Khadka on "Gender and Pastoralism in the Rangelands of the Himalayas: Knowledge, Culture and Livelihoods at the Margins of the Margin" has 500 reads. The topic is especially important this year, the International Year of #Rangelands and #Pastoralism.
Happy to share my latest travel article "Bhutan, A Haven for Travel" in Tashi Delek Magazine in my regular column in the inflight magazine of Drukair Royal Bhutan Airlines. This is another small piece as part of my book on Bhutan. More on this soon! #Bhutan #Bhutantravel #Bhutantours #happiness
Webinar: Feminist Perspectives on Beyond GDP in Asia. This webinar explores how alternative economic frameworks can confront inequality, advance justice, and reshape national wellbeing metrics across Asia. Wednesday March 11th, 3 pm Thailand. Register here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/6fb5db...
Operation Epic Diversion. Release ALL the Epstein files.
Operation Epic Diversion. Release ALL the Epstein files.
Losar Tashi Delek! Happy Losar to family, friends, colleagues in Bhutan, Nepal, Tibet, India and all over the world! May the New Year bring you happiness, peace and blessings. This Tibetan Year of the Fire Horse coincides with ongoing celebrations of the 90th birthday of His Holiness The Dalai Lama.
As we bring in a new year filled with fast-paced news that is often disturbing and stressful, I am elated to share a slight deviation to ease the current trend: my article "Going Slow in Bhutan" in the latest issue of Tashi Delek Magazine, the inflight magazine of Drukair. Stay tuned for the book!
Happy New Year! May it bring peace, contentment & kindness! I ended 2026 by handing out "Packets of Hope" to unhoused people with a good friend - an amazing experience - more on this soon! As 2026 begins, I feel humbled to follow the #WalkforPeace, as Buddhist monks walk to bring peace to our world.
2.5 years after the EU Beyond Growth Conference, it was great to attend the smaller meeting on Eradicating Poverty Beyond Growth in Europe. Questions remain about the inter-relation between moving beyond growth in Europe and colonial/neocolonial relations with the global south. More on this soon!
Never forgotten. On December 6, 1989, a lone gunman walked into the engineering school Ecole Polytechnique. He separated the young women students from the men, and murdered 14 women point blank with a semi-automatic machine gun. This event utterly shattered many people's lives. #ecolepolytechnique 🧵
It was great to give a talk on Decolonial Degrowth at the @icta-uab.bsky.social for The Real Project in Barcelona. Enjoyed giving the lecture and responding to the insightful questions in the Q&A. #degrowth #postgrowth #decolonial #beyondGDP #beyondgrowth #globalsouth #colonialjustice
Delighted to be speaking at the NGO Interest Group roundtable "Things Fall Apart: A Roundtable on the Seen and Unseen in the NGO/NPO World" at the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. The session take place tomorrow, November 20 from 10:15-11:45 am, Marriott Room Galerie 2.