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Her Father’s Daughter

Away from the pseudo-activism of the Bollywood glitterati, a young assistant director of Taare Zameen Par fights for her father, who is under arrest on charges of being a Naxalite commander. Rahul Pandita reports. Rahul Pandit Sunday Indian, April 6, 2008 Aamir Khan has probably…

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Folk Heroes reflect on Uttarakhand in Manhattan

New York City, August 6: The Uttarakhand “trinity” of Shekhar Pathak, Narendra Singh Negi, and “GIR DA” concluded their tour of the US this Monday, returning to New York City to give a powerful presentation on the music and social struggles of the Uttarakhandi people.…

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Folk performance by Negi, Gir 'Da' draws record participation

UANA Annual Convention-2007 By Our Staff Reporter Garhwal Post, July 31, 2007 Dehradun, 30 July: Highlanders from all corners of America and also from Canada participated in the annual convention of the Uttaranchal Association of North America (UANA) in New Jersey on 28 July. The…

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India honours saviour of Valley of Flowers

Posted: 23 Jul 2007 by Neeta Lal Every year some 600,000 pilgrims make their way through the Valley of Flowers in the Indian Himalayas, and until recently, left behind a trail of garbage. Now the Valley and the adjoining Nanda Devi National Park has been…

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NDTV: Uttarakhand’s green man inspires many

Tania Saili Bakshi NDTV, Tuesday, June 5, 2007 (Garhwal) Environment activist Vishweshwar Dutt Saklani has single-handedly regenerated once-barren hills in and around Pujargaon in Uttarakhand into lush green forests. Nestled deep in the Garhwal hills of Uttarakhand the Pujar village echoes with the voice of…

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A Meeting in Memory of Kunwar Prasoon

Chipko Pustakalaya Evam Sanghralaya and Beej Bachao Andolan organized a meeting on 8 May 2007, which was attended by about 50 people from nearby villages besides individuals from Delhi, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarkashi, Rishikesh and Dehra Dun. As most of local people reach such meetings only…

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Delhi Event felicitates Padma Shree Awardees

President A. P. J. Abdul Kalam conferred the Padmashree, one of the country’s highest civilian honours, in an event held at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi on 5th April 2007, to Dr. Lalit Mohan Pandey (Environment), Prof. Shekhar Pathak (Education and Literature), Prof. K. S. Valdiya…

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BL: Friends in high places

A forum for the children of the mountains. By Santosh Mehta Hindu Business Line, March 23, 2007 Twenty-five years of work in the region has proved to the Shri Bhuvneshwari Mahila Ashram (SBMA), a Garhwal-based voluntary organisation in Uttarakhand, that it pays to tap the…

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Dehradun in the Running for International IT Conference

By Rajiv Rawat Garhwal Post February 17, 2007 As the state election campaign enters its final days, another poll is being held in the cyber world to determine the venue of an important information technology conference later this year. Dehradun is one of three cities…

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Free Daniel Robinson

British traveler Daniel Robinson has been in jail since October 2006 because he strayed across the Indo-Tibetan border. We call on the authorities to free Robinson immediately, both as a clemency for his health and as a remedy for the highly punitive sentence that was…

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