Reflecting and Making sense of Earth-Shastra
Let me begin from a year ago, when we first thought of doing this work. We had deep care for the environment and we had our own set of experiences that brought us on the exploration of the relationship with ecology that we, humans share. But there were a few things that stood against us, we thought: We are all young born and/or grew up in post liberalisation era India, grew up to be consumers as one strong identity. This means less connection to the cultural roots of how Indian society in different context has been organised. Secondly, we are seeking to understand and harmonise the relationship between between economics and ecology. And none of us have had any technical background in the field of economics. Notice the word, relationship here - we will come back to it later. With grit, we decided to dive in and allowed the water to teach us how to swim. Harvesting tea leaves with rains and songs playing a tune meant good community. Days before Earth-Shastra program began, we met ...