‘Illuminating the Indus’ is a research proposal conducted in direct communication with the local Government of Sindh Wildlife Department in the region of Sukkur in Pakistan. It redirects the ongoing Indus River Dolphin conservation initiatives of the department to propose a community based, anti-colonial monitoring of the endangered ecosystems along the Indus.

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The thesis questions what it means to live within the trouble and inhabit the post-colonial anthropogenic landscape. By building systems of collective care for all sentient lifeforms, a new infrastructural framework and zoning system for the river bank is created, transforming relationships throughout the entirety of the Indus River, the true home of ‘Bulhan’, the Indus River Blind Dolphin.