Abstract
It is an era of crisis; some manufactured and some caused by the rupture of modernity. The global world is multicultural, but the state boundaries are the packages of history that has made passports significantly essential. The disparities are across the globe, yet east is distinct than the west. The western society did develop, when nature was to be conquered to sustain the humanity and the eastern societies, especially South Asian countries face double edged problematic that nature is to be befriended for the sustainability. When the western societies developed, world was compartmentalized in the hierarchical linearity and when the countries colonized and late to the process of development are to seek transformation in the quality of life, the world is globalized and the notions of privileging remain contested. We have all become wanderers, some move with dignity with proper visas, passports and licences, while transgress illegally internal or external boundaries of states. The referent is material. In its exploration, exploitation has become the canon. It is coming to saturation with the human interventions, where ecosystem and the conservation of energy are jeopardy. In this highly fluid state of interactions, the nature and the less privileged get trampled. There has to be rethinking so that the regenerative politics solves human problems with the consented privileges of the nature. The present paper explores the subjectivity of history in tradition and modernity to understand the sustainability in holistic realm and offer the bridging with the identified traditions and modernity without Scienticism.
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Kaul, A., Adhikary, C.D. (2021). Sustainability: Revisiting Enduring Modern and Identified Tradition. In: Verma, M.K. (eds) Environment, Development and Sustainability in India: Perspectives, Issues and Alternatives. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6248-2_4
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