Alu Gobi is a popular north Indian dish, however neither potatoes or cauliflower are indigenous to India. Potatoes, tomatoes and chillies were introduced to India by the Portuguese probably sometime …
This discussion is a slightly modified and expanded version of an article that I published in Challenging Religious Issues (21: 2024) – a journal for A-Level students in Religious Studies. …
Introduction This discussion is a slightly modified and expanded version of an article that I published in Challenging Religious Issues (20: 2023) – a journal for A-Level students in Religious …
Introduction As I indicated in an earlier post, the environmental crisis faced by our planet is not merely a practical problem that requires a technological solution, it is also a …
These letters are also from my second trip (see Letters from India 2) to India. The first three are written from Rishikesh, a place that became very special to me. …
I found more letters from my second trip than for any of my other travels to India. There are two interconnected reasons for this. I was travelling for over 18 …
When we were clearing out my parent’s house, I found the few aerograms that I had written over a number of trips to India in my Dad’s office. I have …
Introduction I was fortunate to work at the Centre for Alternative Technology (CAT), running their vegetarian restaurant, in the early 1980s. In this post, I focus on CAT as a …
Introduction In his detailed history of what he calls ‘the age of ecology’ Joachim Radkau argues that there has been a paradigm shift in recent times in our responses to …
Introduction In my introduction to philosophy, religion and the environment I indicated that one can make a distinction between instrumentalist and romantic views of nature. The instrumentalist view suggests that …
