Talk@Ragi Kana

RAGI KANA
Off Bannerghatta Road, Bangalore
Jointly organized by Graama Seva Sangha and Sri Ramakrishna Samagra Shikshana Kendra (Hulkul Trust)

Talk by Shri. Sunil Sahasrabudhey on
“Let us not isolate the environment: a lokavidya perspective”.
Time: June 4 – 4 pm

Sunil Sahasrabudhey is founder member of Vidya Ashram, Varanasi, an institution engaged in building a knowledge movement of the ordinary people, viz a lokavidya movement. A student of BHU and IIT Kanpur, Sunilji has spent two decades at the Gandhian Institute of Studies, Varanasi. He has edited magazines such as Mazdoor Kisan Niti and Lokavidya Samvad, and was member of the Patriotic and People-Oriented Science and Technology (PPST) Foundation. He has nearly four decades of experience as an activist and has successfully combined his theoretical interests in the philosophy of science and knowledge, Gandhian philosophy and the theoretical basis of emancipatory movements with an active engagement in movements such as the Students’ Movement of the 1970s and the Peasant Movement of the 1980s and 90s. He has written several books and articles, in Hindi and English, on the philosophy and practice of India’s peasant movements, Gandhi’s philosophy of Science, politics of knowledge in the Internet Age, etc.