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Maletha’s women spearhead campaign against stone crushers

A month into protests against stone crushers mining in the agriculturally-rich Maletha gram sabha, the women of the village have decided to spearhead the campaign. They have taken the lead to demand the State government to cancel the licences of five stone crushers. [more]

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Uncertain future for families who lost breadwinners in Uttarakhand tragedy

The 2013 floods washed away their men out on job in Uttarakhand’s Kedar valley. A year and a half later, as the numbness injected by the catastrophe begins to wear off, the women are waking up to the pain of an uncertain future without breadwinners.…

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Meet India’s Widows of Climate Change

The remote Indian mountain village of Deoli-Benigram has no cars and no electricity. And it hardly has any men — they were washed away by deadly floods last year. [more]

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Askot-Arakot Abhiyan a study of changes in Uttarakhand

The Askot-Arakot Abhiyan – a people’s initiative to study changes in Uttarakhand every 10 years – concluded in Aarakot, thus, continuing a five-decade-old tradition of understanding the people and the villages in the State. [more]

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Exclusive: Green panel blames hydel projects for Uttarakhand disaster

The report also asked for rejection of projects encompassing critical wildlife habitats, high biological diversity and animal movement corridors, as well as projects to be built above 2,500 metres due to unpredictable glacial and paraglacial activities. [more]

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From Askot to Arakot: hills have tales to tell

Ramachandra Guha Hindustan Times, April 26, 2014 On May 25, 1974, four young men set out on a long march across the Himalayas. They were activists in the Uttarakhand Andolan, a popular movement that asked for a separate state to be constituted from the hill…

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Uttarakhand’s Furious Himalayan Flood Could Bury India’s Hydropower Program

A treacherous mountain range unleashes a torrent of water, mud, and boulders that was long anticipated and willfully ignored. [more]

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Restoring Normalcy in Uttarakhand

In their anxiety to restore normalcy in Uttarakhand, both the central and state governments are refusing to face the real reasons behind the devastation caused after the recent floods. These include misplaced development priorities that ignored the ecological fragility of the region. To reduce the…

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Uttarakhand: A Model Of Disaster

A state created to safeguard the hill people, has become a graveyard of pilgrims and local aspirations in just over a decade. Jay Mazoomdaar and Avalok Langer map the catastrophe. [more]

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57 men missing, Deoli-Bramhagram becomes a ‘village of widows’

Over a fortnight after the flash-floods, while many villages remain inaccessible by road, tragic stories are emerging from areas where dirt tracks have been opened up. About seven kilometres from Guptkashi, the six-odd hamlets that comprise the Deoli-Bramhagram panchayat have reported 57 men missing, and…

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