<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Dear all, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">This upcoming webinar titled 'Rabindranath Tagore as an Ecosopher' may be of interest. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Please see below for more details and the link to register. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">In solidarity, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Pooja </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Aanchal</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:aanchal.work.email@gmail.com" target="_blank">aanchal.work.email@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Feb 7, 2025 at 6:06 PM<br>Subject: [vikalp-sangam-list] Rabindranath as an Ecosopher | Feb 18th, 2025 - 6PM | Episode 6 of Webinar *कल से कल की तरफ़ / from yesterday, towards tomorrow*<br>To: Vikalp Sangam elist <<a href="mailto:vikalp-sangam-list@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">vikalp-sangam-list@googlegroups.com</a>>,  <<a href="mailto:kvenvironment@googlegroups.com" target="_blank">kvenvironment@googlegroups.com</a>><br>Cc: Aseem Shrivastava <<a href="mailto:yebhiaseem@gmail.com" target="_blank">yebhiaseem@gmail.com</a>>, Shrishtee Bajpai <<a href="mailto:shrishtee.bajpai@gmail.com" target="_blank">shrishtee.bajpai@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_-7152094961031492052m_-6725764904936639531m_-4808002893034205634gmail-docs-internal-guid-231d2998-7fff-5d94-7db2-83486a6f883b"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Dear all, </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Inviting you for the episode 6 in this series: Shrishtee Bajpai (Member, Kalpavriksh) in conversation with Aseem Shrivastava on </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Rabindranath as an Ecosopher</span><span style="font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">.</span></font></p><img src="cid:ii_m6uqwjjx0" alt="Kal Se Kal Ki Taraf Webinar series posters.png" width="472" height="472"><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"></p><p dir="ltr" style="text-align:center;line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.36239;text-indent:0.854pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Aseem Shrivastava</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> is a writer, teacher and ecological thinker with a doctorate in Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His work is widely published. He has taught at universities in India and the West and offered over several years courses on Global and Indian Ecosophy at Ashoka University. He has lectured across the world on ecological issues emanating from globalisation. He has been guiding and mentoring a number of graduate students and young people working in the realms of Philosophy, Ecosophy, Ecology, and Political Economy. He is the author (with Ashish Kothari) of the books ‘</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">’ (Penguin Viking, New Delhi, 2012), and ‘</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Prithvi Manthan</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">’ (Rajkamal  Prakashan, New Delhi, 2016). He is currently at work on several books on Ecosophy:  ‘</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Grammar of Greed: Reflections on a Fatal Ecology</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">’, ‘</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The Alphabet of  Ecosophy: A Morphology of Twilight Modernity</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">’, and ‘</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">For Love of the Earth:  Modernity, Ecosophy, Rabindranath Tagore</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">’. All these works dialogue with the  ecological challenges of 21st century global modernity.</span></font></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Date</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">: Feb 18, 2025 (Tuesday) </span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Time</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">: 06:00 PM IST</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Duration: 60 mins </font></span></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Register in advance for this webinar:</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Wl9kNRGNSReTzk8znYPA-g" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Wl9kNRGNSReTzk8znYPA-g</font></span></a></p><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">We, at Vikalp Sangam have initiated a webinar series named </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">कल से कल की तरफ़ / from yesterday, towards tomorrow</span><span style="c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ance in Today’s Feminist Movement. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Watch the episode here: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/Wd5JL_hc8ys?si=NkJMFcI9V5FvPaaJ&t=13" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.youtube.com/live/Wd5JL_hc8ys?si=NkJMFcI9V5FvPaaJ&t=13</span></a></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The fourth episode was with Professor, Environmental Studies at Ashoka University Mukul Sharma on </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Ambedkar’s Relevance in Indian Environmental Thought. </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Watch the episode here: </span><a href="https://youtube.com/live/DbBXk6As9-g?feature=share" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://youtube.com/live/DbBXk6As9-g?feature=share</span></a></font></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:decimal;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt" role="presentation"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">The fifth episode was with Grijesh Dinker [Advocate and Dalit Human Rights activist, National Campaign on Dalit Human Right] and Priyanka Samy [Dalit feminist activist, National Federation of Dalit Women] on </span><span style="background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Reclaiming Justice: Dr. Ambedkar's Vision in Contemporary India: </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/live/c4ulyGH8pW0?feature=shared&t=72" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.youtube.com/live/c4ulyGH8pW0?feature=shared&t=72</span></a></font></p></li></ol><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br><br><br></font><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.9872;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Do follow our social media pages to receive regular updates:</font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/@vikalpsangam5243" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Youtube</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> | </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/vikalpsangam" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline">Instagram</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;vertical-align:baseline"> | </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/VikalpSangam" style="text-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