Environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna of the Chipko movement fame and his wife Vimla, participates in a Chipko rally to save the trees on LBC road Photo: Getty Images It has been 50 years since Gaura ...
Over email, the academic-author-traveller talks about what he finds objectionable about the conversation around the Chipko Movement, the popularity of tree plantation drives, and the way forward for ...
As a participant in the Chipko movement and an inhabitant of the Chipko region, I felt that what I had been reading in some books and magazines was very different from what really happened or was ...
Juthi Devi, daughter-in-law of one of the pioneers of the Chipko movement, clasps the trunk of a tree in Raini village in October. Almost 50 years ago, women in Raini, Uttarakhand, used their bodies ...
Writing history, especially contemporary history, is always a challenge on account of the multiple versions of the same occurrences. Even the dates are contested. But, in general, the ‘printed word’ ...
Imagine a time before hashtags and viral campaigns, when a movement sparked a global conversation about the environment. Picture villagers, their voices strong and hearts resolute, standing firm ...
TRAVEL TRENDS, INDIA Updated : May 29, 2021, 14:48 IST Remembering Sunderlal Bahugana, the man behind Chipko Movement Environmentalist Sunderlal Bhaguna, the leader of Chipko Movement and the follower ...