In the foothills of the Indian mountains, a plan to offer walking holidays for tourists could be the salvation of five ancient villages. Peter Hughes reports. London Telegraph, 21 June 2007 I can see them now, standing on a ridge above me, their saris rinsed…
Read more »Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka), 15 July 2007 (Reuters) HUNDREDS of thousands of pilgrims flocking to holy sites in the Himalayas are fouling fragile mountain ecosystems with rubbish, human waste, air pollution and the deforestation that comes with development. Hindus believe the Himalayas are the abode…
Read more »BS Reporter / New Delhi/ Dehra Dun July 05, 2007 After sanctioning mega projects as big as the 2,400 MW Tehri hydel project, the Uttarakhand government is now trying to focus on small power plants. These projects would be of .5 to 5 MW of…
Read more »Caste Hindus who disrupted Dalit cremation acquitted as court loses case papers Rakesh Bhatnagar Thursday, July 05, 2007 NEW DELHI: Twenty-two years after around 20 upper caste Hindus were accused of meting out inhuman treatment to the body of a Dalit which had been brought…
Read more »Former actress devotes herself to India’s forlorn By Cassie Biggs Associated Press Published July 4, 2007 RISHIKESH, India — Maggie O’Hara may have left the false eyelashes and spike heels behind when she ditched Hollywood for the banks of India’s sacred Ganges River, but the…
Read more »Combat Law Vol 6 Issue 4, July – August 2007 The struggle for human rights is far from over in the new state of Uttarakhand. Suresh Nautiyal reports on the local organisations’ strong will to pressurise the government to respect human rights and protect the…
Read more »Bidisha Kumar Down to Earth, June 30, 2007 People living near the Tehri dam on the Bhagirathi river in Uttarakhand are in trouble. Villages on the slopes overlooking the reservoir are threatened by increasing landslides and those living downstream, once ousted for the building of…
Read more »The new Government needs to give a sharp, critical look at the existing pattern of development Hiranmay Karlekar Daily Pioneer June 28, 2007 The complaint was frequent and loud in 16th and 17th century England, “sheep are driving out men”. The reference was to the…
Read more »BY Jagmohan Kathait It is a pleasant drive from Dehradun to Rishikesh via Jolly grant. Barring few chaotic clusters it is an amiable route. We took the bypass before Rishikesh to reach the edge of Laxman Jhula, This bypass further connects to Tehri through well…
Read more »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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