VISITATION OF CONSERVATISM IN THE TALKS OF ECOLOGICAL CONSERVATIONISM
Keywords:
CONSERVATISM, CONSERVATIONISM, ECOLOGICAL, INDIAN, MODERNISMAbstract
Conservatism is normally approached as a negative term but here in my article I wrestle with the term conservatism from an ecological sense and connects with the efforts of conservationism. While modernism eats up the resources conservatism helps to retain the resources in the name of orthodoxy. The entire discussion is how to learn positive elements from the so called conservatism. In a context of redefining every aspects of our life we ought to undertake few attempts which may help us to discover new things meaningfully. It is a search to discover where the ideology of conservation works negatively and where one can claim its good legacy. It could be an essential exercise in the path of social transformation. Under God’s creation nothing is fully evil or fully perfect in its existence. We are all moving towards perfection and improvement.
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