Twenty years ago this June, RAMACHANDRA GUHA began a secular pilgrimage to the Alakananda Valley. His destination was Gopeshwar and his mission was to pay tribute to Chandi Prasad Bhatt, founder of the Chipko Movement. On the occasion of World Environment Day on June 5, in the first of a two-part article, he looks into the life of a pioneering environmentalist, a doer and a thinker, whose aim was to transform the relationship between people and nature. [more]
A Gandhian in Garhwal
Related Recent Posts
- Uttarakhand is paying the high price of anti-environmentalism (2013, June 24)
- 30 Minutes: Are we to be blamed for Uttarakhand catastrophe? (2013, June 22)
- After missing out in Uttarakhand, Harish Rawat gets Cabinet rank (2012, October 28)
- Supreme Court takes notice of construction in Corbett Park (2012, July 5)
- His love for environment only growing stronger (2012, June 3)
- So goes Rawat, so goes Uttarakhand (2012, March 15)
