Jal Jungle Zameen: In the Age of Science and Technology

Author: Bitasta Das, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

Traditionally, the edifice of culture has been built on its distinctiveness from nature: culture is a human institution while nature is the exterior realm; culture encompasses human-endorsed rules, values and exercise of will while nature ordains its own operation. However, most cultures have held nature in high esteem. In India, the earth has been conceived of as ‘mother’. The concept of ishavasyam entails that divinity resides everywhere in nature and hence, it must be revered.

ISBN 978-819-2570-77-8 | First published in 2019