Tag: nature
How War, Weapons and Sabotage Are Becoming the Biggest Source of Environmental Ruin
If the biggest single source of world-level ecological ruin is to be identified, this is most likely to be related to wars, preparations for wars, conflicts, weapons and sabotage.
The Sociology of Bharat Dogra’s Literary Creations
Through his stories and novellas, Bharat Dogra makes it possible—the confluence of political sociology and literary imagination.
Worshipping Waghoba: Faith meets conservation in Maharashtra where humans and leopards share space
The Warli tribe, an indigenous community that lives in northwest Maharashtra, believes that the cat-god Waghoba will protect them from the negative impacts of sharing spaces with leopards.
The home of Chipko movement, now epicentre of disasters and relocation challenges
With frequent disasters, residents have to relocate for their safety. But challenges like limitation of resources in host villages and poor temporary shelters, stand in the way.
The COVID-19 crisis and the Vulnerability of Human Existence: It’s time to Redefine Ourselves
Dissociated with nature, isolated in pain and stigmatised in illness: how cruel has society made us? A reconnect with nature is our innermost need.
Farmers, near Bagmati river in Bihar, pick fertility of land over safety from floods
The Bihar government has been facing opposition, from locals, to the embankment project on River Bagmati. People of Muzaffarpur and Darbhanga district have been...
Excerpt | The Violence of the Mechanical Mind
Vandana Shiva's penetrating observations and sharp reflections make us rethink the project of modernity - its instrumental rationality, its hyper-masculine doctrine of development and manipulation of nature, and its dualism that separates the knower from the known, science from ethics, and is centralizing/monopolizing tendency.
Why Urban Gardening Can Be A lot More Than Just a Hobby
Gardening may be a widely practiced hobby, but can we look at it beyond just that?
Lessons from Hegel for the Contemporary World
As we commemorate the 250th birth anniversary of Hegel and contemplate on his relevance, what can we learn from him today?
In a pandemic, a chance to make India’s recovery and growth equitable
Post-lockdown economic stress added to the woes of the Indian economy, which was already decelerating, much before COVID-19 pandemic. However, news of a normal monsoon that is still the mainstay of the country’s economy brought some hope for a stressed economy and worried government.
