By Ketan Mundhada
Recently, as a part of the ‘Satyagraha series’ organized by SPI, I got an opportunity to listen to Dr. Shreekumar, who is an organic farmer in the south, and “student and practitioner of sustainability and just resource use”. He has a BTech (chemical engineering from Karnataka Regional Engineering College), PhD (Indian Institute of Science), and has taught at NITK Surathkal. Having briefly worked in the Oil industry, he has seen human’s extractive nature at the expense of the future’s survival. He says that other animals don’t have this power, and only humans have this extractive nature. However, the lack of schooling on these topics should be a concern for us all. Mr. Shreekumar became uncomfortable with the privileges derived from such extractive practices and gave it up to adopt a sustainable lifestyle by founding Sangatya. He is actively involved in educating people on issues of sustainability. In the context of new farm law, I learned his perspe