It would be a great pleasure for me in fact us that ECU Students are coming to join with South Asian Institute of Photography under exchange programme. I hope, this is going to be a valuable experience and knowledge exchanging opportunity with ECU students on many collaborative photographic ventures, workshops, classes and projects at our institution. Following are my three ideas; one of those I am interested to make reportage at the time of workshop.
Nayakrishi
a way of joyous life
"We demand a happy and joyous life. We demand, as we call in bangla, ananda."
Nayakrishi Andolon (New Agricultural Movement) is the movement of the farming communities to cultivate happy relations of life and environment and new ways to build up communities. It emerged in response to the negative consequences generated by chemical agriculture and involved the men, women and children of the community in organising to produce healthy food, a healthy environment and a happy life. This happiness, or, as the farmers call it, ananda, is both material and cultural and must be grasped as the living experience of a social being within a community.
Nayakrishi Andolon is based on a very basic principle.
Observe and follow the process us of life and nature, the bounty and the diversity, in order to interact with the external world, to be transformed in the act of participation, in order to open up the immense possibilities of joyful activities and happiness in and around us.
As an agricultural practice, Nayakrishi Andolon is based on 10 simple principles. These principles are developed through the experiences and knowledge of farmers. As their experience and confidence grew, the farmers developed this set of general principles for the production of food and other crops.
My interest is not the activities of their movement, but their culture, their belief, their relation with nature, their way of living, and their pleasure of living. Because they insist that agriculture is not a factory or industry, it is not merely a sector of food production. Agriculture is a way of life, a cultural practice with all the implications of the word "culture".
Nayakrishi Andolon is based on a very basic principle.
Observe and follow the process us of life and nature, the bounty and the diversity, in order to interact with the external world, to be transformed in the act of participation, in order to open up the immense possibilities of joyful activities and happiness in and around us.
As an agricultural practice, Nayakrishi Andolon is based on 10 simple principles. These principles are developed through the experiences and knowledge of farmers. As their experience and confidence grew, the farmers developed this set of general principles for the production of food and other crops.
My interest is not the activities of their movement, but their culture, their belief, their relation with nature, their way of living, and their pleasure of living. Because they insist that agriculture is not a factory or industry, it is not merely a sector of food production. Agriculture is a way of life, a cultural practice with all the implications of the word "culture".
Shrimp farming
a dangerous threat for life
Shrimp farms can cause severe ecological problems. For extensive farms, huge areas of mangroves were cleared, reducing biodiversity. Shrimp farming in many cases has far-reaching effects on the local coastal population. Like salinity, loosing land, bound to change profession. Especially in the boom years of the 1980s and 1990s, the very fast expansion of the industry caused significant changes that sometimes were detrimental to the local population. Conflicts can be traced back to two root causes: competition for common resources such as land and water, and changes induced by wealth redistribution.
Deep tube wells for irrigation
a great cause of man maid water crisis
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