2.Sacred and profane - Emile Durkheim in his " the elementary forms of religious life " says sacred things including religious beliefs rites anything like God spirit, a rock, a tree, a piece of wood. Therefore sacred things must be symbols - Wild boar which is symbol of the lands and forests in kantara.
Profane - profane when the men choose to consider it's utilitarian values and not the instrumental values - King descendent has become greedy.
3.Question the legitimacy of the state - Eternal battle between development and conservation of forest environment, between community and state control. Community didn't enjoy ( legal lag ) any it's traditional rights
4.Deep rooted feudalism - the villages landlord try to grab the village land which one his descendants
5.Totemism - there were a set of rituals and practices which take place around this totem - powerful king searches for solace far and wide he eventually finds it in a small statues in a forest
6.Rationalising the nature and man conflict - kantara reclaim the holistic balance between mother nature and human activity through age old traditions and culture
7.Identity crisis - local communities need to identify themselves as sacred custodians of the environment
8.Symbolic three-way conflict - between the secular state ( represented by the unbelieving forest officer ) the faithful majority ( the descendants of the tribe ) traditional remnant of the old order ( the extractive landlord who nonetheless abides by communicating rules )
9.Rural Renaissance and representing cultural diversity - kantara try to depects the every village of India has a ritual of thier own which believes in natural deity that protects thier livelihoods.
10.Kantara also explore some serious issues like caste discrimination and presence of untouchability.
if you think in the context of Bharat’s ancient beliefs of Hindu religious rituals, traditions and customs, every part of this country is bound by a common thread of devotion. That is the call of divinity Kantara has evoked in the majority.
