With few job opportunities in the Garhwal hills and no other means of income, more and more hill people head downhill towards the big cities in search of a livelihood. By Mahesh Uniyal Time has stood still in Byasi’s roadside market ever since the first…
In many ways the last year and a half have been positive for the Uttarakhand movement. The movement shifted its focus from dharnas and agitations on the streets to discussions in drawing rooms and seminar halls. Anoop Kumar Doon City Chronicle, June 1999 If a…
Jaishree Suryanarayan and Ashish Kothari April 19, 1999 The Setting Tucked away in a picturesque part of the Himalayan foothills, the village of Jardhargaon has a remarkable story to tell. A story of how a community organised itself to conserve precious forests, achieve equity in…
In the 19th century British colonial administrators in India took control of vast areas of forestland, which they subsequently exploited through the Imperial Forest Service. A good part of this forestland had originally been managed communally in accordance with local rules and regulations. With the…
THE seeds of trouble were sown three years ago when the then chief minister Mayawati declared the formation of Udham Singh Nagar district in the Kumaon region of Uttar Pradesh. Now it has grown into a full-blown harvest of discontent, with rich Terai farmers and…
Society: Villagers in a distant village in Uttar Pradesh crawl 40 metres through a dark, dangerous, narrow tunnel AJAY UPRETY in Lucknow The Week, July 12, 1998 The sky was overcast even though it was 1 p.m. We, photographer R.K. Mishra and I, abandoned our…
Story and photos by Sujatha Fernandes GreenLeft Weekly, Wednesday, July 3, 1996 We will make you account for your repressive activities, one day We will answer your sticks and bullets, one day Until that day comes Until this place is developed The flame of revolution…
by Harish Chandola In: R.R. Nautiyal, A. Nautiyal. (eds.) Uttarakhand in turmoil. New Delhi : MD Pub., 1996. Harish Chandola is a well known journalist of Uttarakhand. In this chapter, Chandolaji highlights a very different path than business-as-usual for Uttarakhand, one that unites and empowers…
The following article is the earliest and still the most comprehensive article on the Uttarakhand movement of 1994. It includes critical voices as well as some hard realities about how the movement emerged and how it was perceived at the time. When Delhi papers label…