When you think of global warming, how often do you associate it with the violence inside the human mind, or that before candlelight marches came up against the felling of trees, there were songs by bonded labourers on the quest for their place in nature? The conference, State of Nature in India, aims to bring to light these oft-ignored aspects of negotiating the ecological crisis by creating adialogue among artists, filmmakers, poets, scientists, members of the judiciary and policy makers.

Dr Martin Walde