Activism – Itisaras

Environmental Concerns and Conflicting Realities: A socio-historical study

July 28, 2020July 28, 2020 Somnath Pati 2 Comments Aarey Forests, Activism, Brazil’s National Institute of Space Research, breeze, concerns, conflicting realities, Dehing Patkai, diet, Doikallu, Dongria Kondh tribe, dusk, Eastern Ghats, echo chambers, ecofascism, ecosystem, elephant reserve, environment, environmental, forests, green lungs, greenery, harmony, Jharkhan, journey, largest Sal Forest of Asia, National Crime Records Bureau, Naxalite attack, Niyamgiri hill ranges, non-vegetarian, Odisha, PETA, policies, rail route, rainforest, region, Rourkela, Saraikela, Saranda, social resistance, species, sunlight, survival, tunnels, veganism, vegetarian, village, Warli Adivasis, Wildlife Institute of India

“There is something deceptively reassuring in our readiness to assume guilt for the threats to our environment: we like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives.” – Slavoj Zizek
Everyone today talks about the conflicting realities around the environmental concerns, but how
many can take an action for it? Well, some people do and we can trace them back to our history.
Click on the link and have a look at the socio-historical aspect of the environmental realities.

Culture History

Protest Art and Indian Freedom Struggle

June 4, 2020June 4, 2020 Debopriya Bhattacharya 1 Comment 1905, 1907, 1938, Aarti Khare, Abanindranath Tagore, Activism, Adolf Hitler, Adolf the Superman: Swallows Gold and Spits Tin, arts, Aurobindo Ghose, Banga Mata, Beauty is in the Street, Bengal, Bengal School of Art, Bharatmata, British Raj, dissent, Dr. Michael Shank, Father of Modern Indian Art, Guernica, Haripura Posters, Ideology of Swadeshi Art, india, Jamini Roy, John Heartfield, Kalighat, Lord Curzon, mother, Nandalal Bose, nationalism, Pahari, partition, Picasso, political and social issues, Protest art, Rajasthani, Redefining the Movement: Art Activism, social movements, Swadeshi Movement, Swaraj, The Shehnai Players, Viceroy of India, Western literature

Art isn’t always about peace. Sometimes, it’s about the struggle to find peace. This article talks about the art that was not just co-terminus with the Indian freedom struggle but also aided the same.