In our first episode, we address the importance of art in South Asia and how it can be a tool to project new understanding on climate change and its crisis. Artist and art historian, Iftikhar Dadi, John H. Burris Professor of History of Art and Director of the South Asia Program at Cornell University, discusses how art intersects social, political, and environmental matters.

You can learn more about Iftikhar Dadi's and Elizabeth Dadi's practice here: ⁠http://www.dadiart.net⁠. And view his recently published book on Urdu cinema called ⁠Lahore Cinema: Between Realism and Fable⁠.

You can learn more about Sugata Ray's practice here: ⁠http://www.sugataray.com⁠. And his mentioned book, Climate Change and the Art of Devotion, can be found here: ⁠https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295745374/climate-change-and-the-art-of-devotion/⁠.

Edited by Shavin Seneviratne. Production supervision on this episode by Gloria Lemus-Chavez. Music by Gloria Lemus-Chavez and Bandon Kane. Find out more about their music at ⁠https://themourningparty.com/about-us⁠

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