Environmental degradation is often represented as crisis‚ violence‚ or spectacle. The deterioration of nature through greed and carelessness can be a harbinger of poverty‚ social struggle and even genocide. It can be represented as such in arts‚ literature and social movements. Arundhati Roy achieved this in her essay “The Greater Common Good” by using facts to tell of the Sardar Sarovar Dam and it’s Project Affected Persons (PAP’s). Roy shows evidence of; crisis (the flooding of communities)‚ violence
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The ‘Beej Bachao Andolan’ [BBA]‚ begun in the late 1980s‚ is twenty five year old‚ led by farmer and social activist Vijay Jardhari. The Andolan started in the village Jardhargaon of district Tehri‚ Uttaranchal‚ famous for its unique movement to save the traditional seeds of the hills. The ‘Beej Bachao Andolan’ [Save the Seed Movement or BBA] is not only a crusade to conserve traditional seeds but also to promote agriculture and local tradition. A farmer and social activist‚ Vijay Jardhari
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Bhakti movement Bhakti movement swept across the medieval India with loving devotion to Rama and Krishna as the incarnations of Vishnu‚ the supreme lord‚ as its core message and philosophy and as a rebellion against the superficial Brahminical customs and rituals and caste distinction and discrimination prevalent in the society. The movement was headed by Ramananda who was the first to present Rama as the supreme lord. In the later years‚ Kabir‚ Ravi Das‚ Meera Bai‚ Chaitanya and many other lesser
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Irrigation in the northwest state of Gujarat in India is getting a powerful upgrade – a solar power upgrade. The Narmada canals are the main irrigation line for farms in the northern regions of Gujarat and southern tip of Rajasthan. The new project will put a 1 megawatt solar power grid over the canal. This first stretch of a proposed 600 megawatt solar panel project to span portions of the 19 kilometers of the canal system is situated near the Chandrasan village of Kadi taluka in Mehsana district
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Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme: Beti Bachao Beti Padhao Scheme is a flagship program of Narender Modi led central government. Prime Minister Modi launched this scheme on 22 January 2015 from Panipat city of Haryana for motivating the parents for saving girl children in nucleus and to educate them. The decreasing the numbers of 0-6 years girl children had become the national concern and a stigma on country image at international level. Declining child sex ratio had become a main obstacle in the path
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regarding felling of trees in hilly areas and to stop grazing and to prevent forest fires. People should be made aware of the importance and value of trees and encourage them to plant more trees. The famous Chipko movements in the Himalayas‚ Beej Bachao Andolan in Tehri and Navdanya have shown the participation of the community in conservation of forests. The world’s population is increasing at an alarming rate‚ therefore more and more food is required. The forests are being destroyed and more land
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the policies and programmes of the state. Some of the protests were led by traditional leaders and taken recourse to traditional means (as in Bastar in 1966 or in Jharkhand in the late 1970s) and others were mobilised by social activists (Narmada Bachao Andolan). Most of the protests are very badly handled and suppressed by the state. Also‚ more recently‚ tribal issues has been expressed under the leadership of Maoist
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WOMAN’s ERA HAS COME OF AGE Woman’s essence lies in her innate ability to care and love. She plays an all-enveloping character of a mother‚ daughter‚ wife ‚ sister ‚ friend‚ nurturer‚ guide and partner. She can be strong and soft‚ hard but still delicate. Woman is indeed the most beautiful creation of the Almighty! The status of women in India has been subject to many great changes over the past few millennia. From equal status with men in ancient times through the low points of the medieval
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marginal population – hill peasants‚ tribal communities‚ fishermen and other underprivileged people. The different environmental movements in our own country support this argument. The examples could be taken as Chipko‚ N.B.A. ‚ Mitti Bachao Andolan‚ Koel-Karo Andolan etc. That is why the environmentalism of the North is refereed as “full stomach” environmentalism and the environmentalism of the south is called as “empty – belly” environmentalism. Keol-karo a proposed project to generate 710 megawatts
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o answer the question whether India has been a successful democracy Ramachandra Guha invokes the great comedian Johnny Walker’s lines from a movie where his answer to all the questions of life (like whether he would marry the lady he so dearly loves) is ‚ “Boss‚ phipty‚ phipty.” Much the same could be said of the book. There could not have been a more daunting topic for a writer‚ especially Indian‚ than “India after Gandhi.” Guha handles this humongous theme in a “phipty‚ phipty” sort of way.
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