Research
Capitalism and True Environmentalism: A Contrast of Approaches as Seen in Literature in the Indian and Global Scenario
The paper sought to study the Indian and the global approaches towards environmental conservation as have reflected in respective literature and to find out which approach converge towards true environmentalism. In the course of the study, it put on discussion the undercurrents of capitalism in the works of western literature by analysing a sample of different poems. Further it inspected how environmentalism finds its place in Indian literature where nature and environment becomes a thing of worship, the very heart of Indian poetry. The paper found that India sets an ideal and ultimately the only effective approach towards environmental conservation. Unlike the ongoing efforts led by capitalist organisations, which seek only to bring back the comforts man has lost as a result of his destruction of nature, India has set an example of how to live sustainably in harmony with the nature.
Gitanjali : A Distant Conception Made an Up-close Perception
his paper studies how Gitanja li transcended cultural boundaries carried and passed on to the European reader glimpses of Advaita and such great philosophy. In an era that continuously tended to manufacture a global culture under the spell cast by an invisible hegemonic force, it was really hard for individual cultures to survive. Many of them began to dissolve into the ever expanding sea of a synthetic merger of cultures. Many others were smudged out helplessly in the growing current of ‘pseudomodernisation’. Everything that was old, and own, was left with utter negligence in going with the current, seeking after the new. It had been the persistent scenario in the past couple of decades. Though, of late, signs of hope are visible, this is what prevailed in India too In a desperate endeavour to make an absolutely alien culture and way of living their own, large sections of the populace did let fall into oblivion the traditions and culture. It is terribly unfortunate for a country like India having the oldest and superlatively supreme of cultures in the world to have to tolerate such selfdestructing tendencies. Not that there are no serious endeavours going on to study and personalize our culture and most importantly what has been the very essence our existence, our philosophy and elaborate discourse on the truth and true spiritual knowledge treasured in the sacred texts. But those attempts turn increasingly trying even for Indians for such deep is the imprint that the modernized culture has left upon us.
