Interview: Mridula Ramesh on Using Fiction to Spread Environmental Awareness
The idea of pralaya captures that importance. Also, many of the concepts embedded in that tradition—especially the idea of balance—resonated deeply with the ecological crisis we are living through today.\r\nYou’ve written extensively about climate change in non-fiction. What made you turn to storytelling to explore these themes?
- ▪The idea of pralaya captures that importance.
- ▪Also, many of the concepts embedded in that tradition—especially the idea of balance—resonated deeply with the ecological crisis we are living through today.\r\nYou’ve written extensively about climate change in non-fictio
- ▪What made you turn to storytelling to explore these themes?
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