Gandhism

India is losing the great tradition of 'spirit of inquiry and dissent' which we cherished in the past as the progressive history of cultural tolerance and harmony. In today's India, the political parties in power and opposition are eyeing human individuals as potential voters and trying to woo them by spreading untruths and rumors. Indian society by and large needs introspection and learn from an icon of 20th century who shown us the path of wisdom, non-violence and peace. Gandhi cherished the heterodoxy and learned from the great tradition of dissent.

The palpable rightward shift of the
Congress in Kerala, specifically
with regard to Sabarimala, is
consistent with the conservative
political posturing which the party has for long articulated
in the state, especially towards
questions around social reforms.
However, the present positioning,
with its proximity to a narrative
of Hindu victimhood, has also
gained some new dimensions.

Environment is now well accepted as a prominent issue which attracts our immediate attention, the understanding has led to the formation of a plethora of different schools of environmental thinking and the same is reflected in the formation and operation of numerous movements as well. Today it is well accepted that environmental activism is providing a new dimension to the political sphere at international, national and local levels. The politics of environment has been attracting wider attention for the last few decades. The various environmental movements and schools of thoughts are prevalent today and the paper focuses on the environmental politics, movements and the environmental thoughts. Introduction Environmental politics is about how humanity organizes itself to the nature that sustains it. Thus it compasses matters of how people deal with the earth and its life, and how they, relate to each other through the medium of the environment. Also it impinges on other areas of political concern such as those related to poverty, education, race, the economy and international relations etc. The "environment" as a collective term for all these concerns arrived in the 1960s, which dates the beginning of environmental politics as such. Since then, the growth of environmental literature has matched the growth of environmental concern, which has spread to the third world and the global system itself. In the last four decades, the politics of the earth has featured a large and growing range of issues. The initial concerns were with pollutions, wilderness preservation, population growth, and depletion of natural resources. These concerns have been supplemented by worries about energy supply, animal rights, species extinction, global climate change, depletion of the ozone layer, toxic wastes, the protection of whole ecosystem and environmental justice. All these issues are interlaced with a whole range of moral and ethical questions about human livelihood, human attitudes and our proper other entities on the planet.