Abhimanyu is working with the NWO funded project titled Futuring Heritage: Conservation, Community and Contestation in the Eastern Himalayas. He will be contributing by engaging in an ethnographic study in Sikkim where he intends to engage with the questions of heritage, governance, local perspectives and indigeneity.

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Abhimanyu pursued his Masters in Development Studies from Indian Institute of Technology, Hyderabad where he worked on questions of climate citizenship in the global south. Consequently, he conducted an ethnographic fieldwork in Lamahatta, Darjeeling where he studied the local narratives of climate change to understand how people engage with the dominant climate discourses in their everyday lives. Abhimanyu is interested in the role of development practices in shaping environmental outcomes and has collaborated with various organizations in this domain. Inspired and limited by opportunities arising from being born and raised in Darjeeling, questions of ecology, development and culture in the Himalayan region compel and reflect in his endeavours.