#MovingUpstream
Applications for the Betwa Walk are in and under review. You will be hearing back from us shortly. Here’s a glimpse of what awaits: a fisherman, a sunset, and the ominous rumble of an industrial sand mine. #MovingUpstream #EdenWalk @veditum
July 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Today, Oct. 15, is the deadline for our grant to walk & document life along the river Betwa. Storytellers in any medium—writers, photographers, illustrators, musicians, mapmakers & more—pitch us your proposals. http://bit.ly/2QuHmiu #EdenWalk #MovingUpstream @veditum
July 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Just as a traveling pot seller awaits the river ferry, @veditum awaits your application by Oct. 15 to walk the Betwa, & record its ecology & culture. Our grant supports your basic needs as you live among the river people: http://bit.ly/2QuHmiu #EdenWalk #MovingUpstream
July 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
2 hours’ walk in the morning. Talk with a farmer about the climate. Note the trees. Record tales of the water trades. Walk 2 hours to the next village. Find a host. Storytellers apply for a grant to walk the river Betwa: http://bit.ly/2QuHmiu @veditum #EdenWalk #MovingUpstream
July 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Rivers are the biographers of landscape. Are you a writer, photographer, digital mapmaker , poet, or other documentarian? Then we have an #Indian river for you. Storytellers apply for a grant to walk the river Betwa here: http://bit.ly/2QuHmiu @veditum #EdenWalk #MovingUpstream
Moving Upstream - Betwa - Veditum India Foundation
The Moving Upstream: Betwa project by Veditum attempts to comprehensively document the river ecosystem using primary research & remote sensing techniques.
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July 31, 2025 at 2:44 PM
A @veditum | @outofedenwalk river-walking fellowship in #India takes wing: @Mint_Floss, one of our fellows, reports on bird populations along the Betwa River: https://t.co/PRpAiPQfY0 #MovingUpstream #EdenWalk #CitizenScience
Birdwatching along the Betwa - Veditum India Foundation
Birdwatching while walking along the Betwa: Abundance of resident and migratory birds stands threatened by Developmental Activities and rampant Sand Mining.
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July 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The #MovingUpstream fellows selected for the 2nd Leg of the @veditum | @outofedenwalk Betwa River walking program in India are a journalist, a technologist, a visual artist & environmental activist. Congrats: Astha Chaudhary / @ysfahan / Kabini Amin / @mohitmrao #EdenWalk
July 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Congrats! 4 talented new riverwalkers have been selected for the @Veditum | @outofedenwalk #MovingUpstream Fellowship. They will be walking/recording life on the #Betwa River in India. #EdenWalk https://bit.ly/2NkVjQ1
July 30, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Walkers, scientists, scribes, artists, musicians, students, activists—apply for the next #MovingUpstream river-walking fellowship in India, a @veditum grassroots initiative partnered with @outofedenwalk. See: https://t.co/2WerYjSEco @sidagarwal #EdenWalk https://t.co/NM5mwxCYN4
Moving Upstream - Veditum India Foundation
Moving Upstream is Veditum's flagship project. We're walking India's rivers and documenting them.
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July 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Our 1st @veditum fellows walked ~300kms along the #Betwa River for the #MovingUpstream fellowship. They share ideas on walking #Indian rivers as a storytelling & awareness-building practice. @Outofedenwalk @Mint_Floss @Indian_Rivers @yamunajiye #EdenWalk http://bit.ly/2ZNd8g1
Walking along the Betwa - Moving Upstream | www.veditum.org
Reflections from a 300km walk along river Betwa in Bundelkhand, as part of Veditum's 'Moving Upstream' series of projects.
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July 30, 2025 at 5:07 PM
To know where we’re going, it helps knowing where we’ve come from. Amazing discoveries of the first #MovingUpstream river-walking fellows on the #Betwalk in #India: #Neolithic and #Acheulian choppers and handaxes. 10K-500k yrs old. https://t.co/kBvXW2nwGF @veditum @outofedenwalk
July 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Congrats Radhika Singh, Shail Joshi, Prerana Anjali Choudhury & Anup B Prakash-the 1st #MovingUpstream fellows, who are trekking the #Betwa River to engage with local people & landscapes in a quest to record & conserve #India’s imperiled rivers. #Betwalk @veditum @outofedenwalk
July 30, 2025 at 5:00 PM
A new exploration & chronicling of #India’s imperilled river systems begins—on foot, by Indian artists, scientists & storytellers, young and old. Proud to support @veditum’s #MovingUpstream project. @outofedenwalk #BetwaRiver #EdenWalk https://x.com/veditum/status/1082303621814018061
July 30, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Walking partner @sidagarwal describes his years of river walks in #India & his mission to encourage Indians to take similar on-foot explorations of troubled river ecosystems via the @veditum #MovingUpstream fellowships. @outofedenwalk @InsideNatGeo
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National Geographic Out of Eden Walk
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and National Geographic Fellow Paul Salopek is retracing on foot the global migration of our ancestors in a 38,000 km, seven-year odyssey that begins in Ethiopia and ends in Tierra del Fuego.
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July 30, 2025 at 2:57 PM
India=from old Sanskrit ‘sind’=‘River.’ What’s it like to roam on foot along #India’s fabled riverlands? Check out these inspiring tales from #MovingUpStream Fellows. Architects. Writers. Conservationists. Designers. Proud to partner with @veditum. https://bit.ly/3dpwNZc
July 30, 2025 at 2:46 PM
This is going to be good: a roundtable with the storytellers, artists & citizen scientists who’ve been walking #India’s rivers as part of the #MovingUpstream Fellowship. Deeper learning...through your feet. Open to all. @veditum @outofedenwalk #EdenWalk https://t.co/vrymEC0JUA
July 30, 2025 at 2:45 PM
Check out walking partner @sidagarwal’s new video compiled from a 6-month trek along the #Ganges River in India: Ma #Ganga as you’ve rarely seen—or heard—her before. #MovingUpstream @veditum https://x.com/sidagarwal/status/1268043891887894528
July 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Two designers on a #MovingUpStream river-walking fellowship in #India find a stunning, house-sized work of folk art crafted by a local widow from “plastic flowers, envelopes, wedding invitations, event posters, DVD covers, mirrors.” @veditum @outofedenwalk https://bit.ly/2LT2PRY
A house of art by the river Betwa
Two designers reflect on a house aesthetic by the side of a river in north India, and the life of the woman who has made it into a charming example of upcycling
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July 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
.@veditum river walking fellows discover broken rivers & broken promises on a 270 km (160 mi) trek along the much-dammed Betwa River in #India. More boot level research & storytelling from the #MovingUpstream program. @mohitmrao @sidagarwal @outofedenwalk #EdenWalk https://t.co/qx9qELuHvY
July 30, 2025 at 2:37 PM
One of our river walking fellows, @mohitmrao, describes the daily affirmation of trekking the #Betwa River in #India for two weeks: finding village hospitality at every sunset. Read the thread-& his travelogue at the end. @veditum @sidagarwal #MovingUpstream #EdenWalk https://t.co/cddJynlj5E
July 30, 2025 at 2:34 PM
‘Walking for us...allows for deep personal reflections as well as an intimate connection with the land & people.’ New #MovingUpstream fellows have helped pace off a total 400km of River #Betwa in #India. See their remarkable work here: https://bit.ly/3agPDkw @veditum #EdenWalk
July 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Congrats! Our partners at @veditum have received a record number of #MovingUpstream river-walking applications this year. The fellowship program supports 2-week storytelling walks along the #Sindh River in India. Final selections will take a few weeks. @outofedenwalk #EdenWalk
July 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
The next #MovingUpstream fellowships are available for storytellers, artists, scientists & others interested in hiking/researching the River Sindh in central #India for 2 weeks. A collaborative program between @veditum & @outofedenwalk. Details: https://veditum.org/moving-upstream/sindh/ #EdenWalk
July 28, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The @outofedenwalk partners with @veditum to co-host river walking fellowships for storytellers, scientists, artists & anyone else interested in documenting #India’s rivers & the people who live along them. Check out the multimedia reports created by fellows: 1/3 #MovingUpstream https://...
July 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
'Walking has the capacity to disarm someone you're meeting...all the layers of separation that we generally have are removed.'

@outofedenwalk walking partner @sidagarwal hiked 3000 km up India's #Ganga River. His movie trailer: #MovingUpstream @veditum
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July 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM