Artist, environmentalist and curator Ravi Agarwal provides a background and introduction to the State of Nature India in 2018.

Essay by artist, environmentalist and curator Ravi Agarwal that provided a background to the State of Nature in India conference in Mumbai, 2018—part of the Anthropocene India initiative in partnership with the Goethe-Institut Mumbai. With planetary futures at stake, how might we examine notions of power and ethics in order to address the current ecological crisis?