Skip to search.
ZESTAlternative · An alternative way of being

Group Information

  • Members: 230
  • Category: Other
  • Founded: Aug 14, 2004
  • Language: English
? Already a member? Sign in to Yahoo!

Yahoo! Groups Tips

Did you know...
Message search is now enhanced, find messages faster. Take it for a spin.
Notice  Upcoming calendar upgrade: Yahoo! Groups calendars are being upgraded to a much improved version. You may not have access to the calendar (for up to 24 hours) when this group is upgraded. We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience.

Home

 

Activity within 7 days:

Description

What do Mohandas Gandhi's spectacular asceticism, Masanobu Fukuoka's natural farming, Ivan Illich's appropriate technologies, Noam Chomsky's political pacifism, Vandana Shiva's eco-feminism, Black Elk's visionary shamanism, Chinua Achebe's novels and Isaac Newton's occultism have in common? They can all be understood as attempts to provide alternatives to a reductionist, scientific world-view, one that is so dominant today that it is inconceivable that there could be alternative ways of being.

We all have misgivings about the modern age. And we have been made to believe that science, and only science, has the answer to the problems it creates. Members of ZESTAlternative hope to give voice to such misgivings by exposing each other to important critiques of the modern world, and providing alternatives to the existing systems - systems of education, medicine, technology, agriculture, language, media, art, culture, history, and, why not, even dissent.

Lets regain our diversity - start with one Alternative article every alternate day. Members respond to articles but don't initiate new discussions, because ZESTAlternative is like a study circle which spends more time listening than talking.

ZESTCurrent | ZESTEconomics | ZESTMedia | ZESTPoets | ZESTCaste | ZESTAlternative | ZESTGlobal | TalkZEST

Most Recent Messages

  (View All)
(Group by Topic)
Advanced
   Start Topic
The seed and the mine By Shiv Visvanathan
[image: logo] Published on Deccan Chronicle (http://www.deccanchronicle.com) The seed and the mine By Shiv Visvanathan Oct 25 2010 The minister of environment
Posted - Thu Nov 4, 2010 3:32 pm
Jogesh Motwani
jogeshmotwani@...
Send Email Send Email
Where Does He Come From? A review of Naipaul's A Writer’s People:
[image: London Review of Books] <http://www.lrb.co.uk/> - Where Does He Come From? Sanjay Subrahmanyam - A Writer’s People: Ways of Looking and Feeling by
Posted - Fri Oct 29, 2010 3:37 am
Jogesh Motwani
jogeshmotwani@...
Send Email Send Email
Us Tribals, Them Indians
Us Tribals, Them Indians By Amartya Saha <http://nazaronline.net/author/amartya-saha/> 1 October 2010 119 views 4 Comments
Posted - Sat Oct 2, 2010 1:32 pm
Jogesh Motwani
jogeshmotwani@...
Send Email Send Email
“Force of faith trumps law and reason in Ayodhya case”
The Great Pizza Judgement - divide it 3 ways... “Force of faith trumps law and reason in Ayodhya case” [ Date : Oct 1st, 2010 ] [image:
Posted - Fri Oct 1, 2010 8:23 am
Jogesh Motwani
jogeshmotwani@...
Send Email Send Email
A Moment of Silence for 9/11
A Moment of Silence Before I start this poem by Emmanuel Ortiz [September 11 2002] http://www.kersplebedeb.com/mystuff/s11/silence.html Before I start this
Posted - Sat Sep 11, 2010 4:58 am
Jogesh Motwani
jogeshmotwani@...
Send Email Send Email
Add ZESTAlternative to your personalized My Yahoo! page Add to My Yahoo! XML What's This?

Message History

Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
2010 8 3 3 3 6 4 3 1
2009 27 8 8 11 12 6 9 3 12 10 6 4
2008 14 14 7 12 11 9 6 7 8 13 11 7
2007 9 13 16 13 12 9 6 4 5 7 3 13
2006 5 9 4 5 13 12 14 8 9 11 10 12
2005 26 24 19 20 25 10 6 8 13 12 6 6
2004 2 15 22
What is Yahoo! Answers?

Yahoo! Answers, a new Yahoo! community, is a question and answer exchange where the world gathers to share what they know...and make each other's day. People can ask questions on any topic, and help others out by answering their questions.

What is Yahoo! Answers?

Yahoo! Answers, a new Yahoo! community, is a question and answer exchange where the world gathers to share what they know...and make each other's day. People can ask questions on any topic, and help others out by answering their questions.

Questions in Science & Mathematics > Other - Science

  • Questions are currently unavailable.

Want to help answer other questions? Go to Yahoo! Answers


Copyright 2010 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved.
Privacy Policy - Terms of Service - Guidelines NEW - Help