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Anthropologist favours creation of eco villages

VISAKHAPATNAM: Anthropologist Charles W. Nuckolls has favoured creation of ‘eco villages’ and self-sustainable communities where people “live lightly” on land.

Delivering a guest lecture at Al-Ameer College of Engineering and Information Technology at Gudilova on Tuesday, Prof. Nuckolls, from Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, the USA, praised the contribution of Mahatma Gandhi who was a champion of Grama Swaraj and living as self-sufficient communities.

He said Indian societies still valued human relations, community connections, traditional agricultural methods and local farming. “This spirit of India can be taken as a model and guide the USA and the Western societies to save the world from global environmental and economic crises,” he observed.

He warned that Indian society might also suffer like the US with adverse effects of technology and depletion of natural resources if care was not taken now.

Prof. Nuckolls said the world was facing a serous ecological crisis because of the depletion of natural resources by many “advanced” and “developing” countries. Technology had already been put to misuse making people slaves to consumerism.

He felt that India was also seriously suffering from such problems.

The professor regretted that in the West, particularly in the US, the idea of living in a cohesive social community was forgotten and life became very mechanical and isolated.

College Secretary and Correspondent I.H. Farooqui felicitated Prof. Nuckolls. Coordinator M.V. Krishnayya and Head of the Department of Biotechnology R. Gopinath spoke.

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