Showing posts with label India After Independence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label India After Independence. Show all posts

Sunday, March 31, 2013

The past & present of Indian environmentalism

Keshav

By Ramachandra Guha

On the 27th of March 1973 — exactly 40 years ago — a group of peasants in a remote Himalayan village stopped a group of loggers from felling a patch of trees. Thus was born the Chipko movement, and through it the modern Indian environmental movement itself.