Select invited talks/events/media (since 2020)
'Linking knowledge and practice for effective water management', National conference on 'River Rejuvenation and Indian Knowledge System', Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University Lucknow, India, November 12-13, 2025
'Water in rapidly changing river basins', Convening of Alliance For Conserving Freshwater Ecosystems, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Kolkata, India, October 9-10, 2025
In conversation with G V Pavan Kumar in Pratidhvani - Humanizing Science , May 14, 2025 (YouTube link)
Moderator for the panel on 'Participation Matters', National Conference on Operation and Maintenance of Rural Pipe Water Supply Systems, WaterAid, New Delhi, India, February 19, 2025
Panel on Role of Riverscapes in Supporting River Sustainability: Research and Policy Concerns, The Indian Association of Social Science Institutions 2024 conference, Ranchi, India, October 26, 2024
'Potentials and pitfalls of composite indices in development policy', K N Raj School of Economics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India, September 9, 2024
Panel on Sustainable Water Futures: Key Priorities at the Science-Policy-Practice Interface in Asia, The International Association for Society and Natural Resources 2024 conference (online), Cairns, Australia, June 27, 2024
Moderator for the panel on 'Strategies for freshwater conservation', Mumbai Water Conclave 2024, March 22, 2024 (YouTube link)
'Equity and challenges at scale in climate action', Conference on Gender and Climate Change: Issues, Policy implications and the way forward, Gujarat Institute of Development Research & Christ University, Bangalore, India, March 6, 2024
In conversation on Women for Water, January 15, 2024 (YouTube link)
'Equity and sustainability in development practice and policies', K N Raj School of Economics, Mahatma Gandhi University, Kottayam, India, October 26, 2023
Net-Zero Dialogues: Policy Pulse, Climate Finance and Sustainable Transitions, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India, September 5, 2023
Policy Roundtable on 'Biodiversity Conservation and Civil Society Organizations', Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, India (online), C20 India 2023 Engagement Group of the G20, April 4, 2023 (YouTube link ; Presentation)
Panel on 'Natural Resources Governance and Regulation: Towards Sustainability and Equity', Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, India, Crystal Jubilee Celebration 2023 - 15 years of School of Habitat Studies, March 9, 2023
'Climate Change and Development', The Divecha Centre for Climate Change, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India (online), ITEC training course in climate change and environment, February 10, 2023
Moderator for the panel on 'Integration in Water Education', Tata Institute of Social Sciences Hyderabad, India, Wednesdays for Water Foundation's Water Festival, January 12, 2023 (YouTube link)
'Imagining sustainability: insights from COVID-19 lockdown in India', Institute for Global Environmental Strategies, Tokyo, Japan, Workshop on Understanding and Addressing Systemic Risks Behind the Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19 in India and Japan, November 21-22, 2022
'Environment-development trade-offs at different scales', Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India, Workshop on Developing an Actionable Approach to Carbon Neutrality, October 11, 2022 (YouTube link)
'Rethinking water management: a river basin perspective', Agharkar Research Institute, Pune, India, Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav and ARI Platinum Jubilee lecture, August 17, 2022
'Linking water, trees and people', Maharashtra State Biodiversity Board, India, World Biodiversity Day 2022 event, May 22, 2022 (YouTube link)
'Addressing the 'social' questions at different scales' at Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics, Pune, India, Workshop on Balancing Net-Zero, March 11, 2022
'Working in a 'crisis discipline': perspectives on environment and development', The Biology Society (online), February 26, 2022 (YouTube link)
Wednesdays for Water panel on Water Education in/for Higher Studies, weekly online series, India, December 1, 2021 (YouTube link)
'From growth to degrowth: the normative challenge in development' at Indian Institute of Technology, Tirupati (online), June 18, 2021
Roldan Muradian interviews Rajeswari Raina and Bejoy Thomas on Post-pandemic India, as part of a series by International Society for Ecological Economics, January 18, 2021 (YouTube link)
'Equity and Environmental Sustainability: The normative dilemma/challenge' at Institute of Rural Management, Anand, India (online); DOCMAD 2020 panel on Dilemmas in Development, November 5, 2020 (YouTube link)
Expert member on the W12 Framework task team on politics, Conference on cities facing escalating water shortages, University of the Western Cape, South Africa, January 27-28, 2020
Events
Training workshop on Understanding Climate Change by Bhavatal Foundation and IISER Pune for working professionals and general public, July 11-13, 2025
fairSTREAM project workshops: 'Identifying Water, Food and Biodiversity Nexus Challenges in the Upper Bhima Basin', IISER Pune; November 12, 2024; February 6-7, 2024; January 17, 2023
Media
Floods in Pune (Question of Cities, June 28, 2024, The Times of India, September 27, 2023)
Upper Bhima basin research featured in The Indian Express, November 14, 2024 The Times of India, February 19, 2024 (link to Situational Analysis)
Featured in The Wire (March 20, 2023), Outlook Magazine (May 13, 2022), Mongabay India (April 12, 2022) and The Wire Science (April 8, 2022) on IPCC reports and climate action
Pune Mirror reports on Punyache Paani, March 21, 2022
Documentaries on water
Short documentary (2016) 'River or Sewer? The Story of Vrishabhavathy in Bengaluru, Southern India', based on research on wastewater reuse in urban and peri-urban Bengaluru during 2011-16
Short documentary (2016) 'Arkavathy: A Changing Waterscape', based on research on water stress in the Arkavathy sub-basin during 2012-16