I feel my time in Meghalaya was too nuanced and the political contexts too complex for me to condense any arguments that would do all of my incredible teachers from the past two weeks –or Meghalaya itself – any justice. So my alternative is to use this blog as a space to tease out the thoughts and observations whirring around my head: first to contextualize some of the issues ...
Chase Conrad
“The Greening of a Wasteland”
India is a country plagued by its land grabs, the result is countless displaced indigenous and tribal groups alongside some of the lowest forest cover per-capita rates in the world. I won’t make the argument that Auroville can be considered a land grab, there are numerous examples of how the municipality is a much better presence and neighbor than some foreign investor or ...
