Uttarakhand's Raini village in Chamoli district, where flash flood tragedy struck on Sunday, has played a central role in one of India’s first major environmental movements -the Chipko movement.

A lawyer and a Gandhian, she was the head of the women‘s wing of the textile labour association in 1971 when she realized that self-employed women who work in Ahmedabad Crafts market had erratic wages ...

Fifty years ago this week, Gaura Devi, an ordinary woman from a nondescript village in India, hugged a tree, using her body as a shield to stop the tree from being cut down. Little did she know that ...

Writing history, especially contemporary history, is always a challenge on account of the multiple versions of the same occurrences. Even the dates are contested. But, in general, the ‘printed word’ ...

Environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna of the Chipko movement fame and his wife Vimla, participates in a Chipko rally to save the trees on LBC road Photo: Getty Images It has been 50 years since Gaura ...