A scripted theatre performance in Chandigarh highlighting the problem of stubble burning and air pollution

Published : May 18, 2023 11:00 IST - 8 MINS READ A witness box. These are scenes from In the Matter Re: Rights of Nature, a staged hearing that addresses the links between air pollution in Delhi NCR and the agricultural practice of stubble burning in the neighbouring States of Punjab and Haryana. “At one point in the hearing, lawyers and witnesses come together to play the board game Weeping Farm, devised by the artist witnesses on the stand.” Don’t you generate stubble in the course of your farming, the lawyer Manmohan Lal Sarin, appearing on behalf of the farmers, asks Bhattad, who explains that the crops are planned in a manner that allows people in the village to fill their stomachs, share their produce with others, process the produce, including stubble, to create other products, and to feed their animals. Highlights In the matter Re: Rights of Nature is a staged hearing that addresses the links between air pollution in Delhi NCR and the agricultural practice of stubble burning in the neighbouring States of Punjab and Haryana. is a staged hearing that addresses the links between air pollution in Delhi NCR and the agricultural practice of stubble burning in the neighbouring States of Punjab and Haryana.