Delhi’s Chipko movement
TREES are the first casualty of the Commonwealth Games which will be held in Delhi in 2010. Roads, flyovers and buildings need to be made so trees are being hacked and killed. Not many shed a tear. It’s the price of development most Delhiites say with a shrug. Now an activist group has come together to fight for trees. Consisting of citizens, environmentalists and NGOs, the group calls itself Trees for Delhi.“Delhi has become a city of land use,” says Ravi Agarwal, director of Toxics Link and the architect of the campaign.
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Inspiring the village teacher
AT the festering Rajiv Gandhi Nagar slum in Balanagar Mandal of Rangareddy district in Andhra Pradesh, a little government primary school with two-rooms is running its ‘summer workshops’. It has 262 students from Class One to Class 5. The little ones in their worn out clothes play ludo, snakes and ladder and games with songs and poetry.
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Makaibari’s wonderful tea forest
WHAT does an enchanting forest have to do with a cup of exquisite tea? Visit the Makaibari tea estate in Kurseong on the way to Darjeeling and find out. Giant bamboos, Himalayan oaks, ferns and orchids envelope the estate. Over 70 per cent of this amazing tea plantation is covered by dense forest, a feat accomplished by dedicated local selfgovernance and an enlightened tea garden management.
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School gets a herbal garden
SD Public School in dusty Muzaffarnagar has shown it can do better than the biggest schools in the country in teaching its students to care for the environment. It already has a unique Eco-Club. Now a Herbal Resource Centre will help the children of SD Public understand organic farming and since they come from rural households chances are that they will take this learning back to their family fields.
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Canvassing for artistic freedom
INDIA’S art community took to the streets once again to protest assaults on creative freedom. The protest was triggered by the sudden arrest on May 9 of Chandramohan Srilamantula, a student at Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda, for having exhibited art works that, according to the police, “hurt religious sentiments and pose a threat to public order”. The artists saw the arrest as a transgression on the right to individual expression.
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