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growth of plants, of diversity, of children, of health, and of our relationship with the earth. It is not the narrow growth of finances.

“If people don’t rise up and start questioning the power of giant corporations, we will see that what has happened to Indian farmers will happen to all levels of society the world over,” emphasised Vandana.

Globalisation as the phenomena of countries opening their markets is now over, she avers. What is now happening is agreements such as the Trans-Pacific partnership agreement, which in effect allows corporations to sue governments.

“This next step of coercive globalisation where corporations sue governments will mean the end of democracy, the end of human rights and the end of sustainability,” Vandana warns.

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the paradigm of growth. The cult of ‘growth,’ which has dictated policy for decades. Consumerism as a cult is the way the growth mechanism keeps growing. Amidst the serious talk, Vandana drew laughter from the audience when she pointed out that the word ‘consumption’ was the word for TB or tuberculosis in the Middle Ages. You died of it!

Her detractors call her the High Priestess of the ‘keep the poor poor and hungry’ movement. But Vandana believes in change at a grassroots level. Navdanya, literally Nine Seeds, is an organisation she started in 1987 to create a non-violent system of farming where one works with nature. It was created as

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“In fact, the seeds that we saved have helped each time in recovery after a climate disaster, whether it is drought, flood or cyclone” said Vandana.

She believes that every garden should be a seed sanctuary, using open pollinated seeds that can be renewed and saved, creating a different growth economy; a

When asked who was the real Vandana in private, she replied that she could not do what she does as a 9 to 5 job. It is her very existence. She has rejected politics in spite of requests from close friends who will be contesting the Delhi elections with the new Aam Aadmi Party. “I made a choice not to be in politics but rather, be in deeper transformational processes,” she stated.