Chipko heroine Gaura Devi, who was a living legend in this Himalayan region, passed away in July 1991 at the age of 66 in Uttarakhand’s mountain village of Reni. The story of her courage and ...
It was a humbling experience. We were in the house where Gaura Devi— a grassroots activist and a community leader, who was one of the pioneers of the Chipko movement, which gained significant momentum ...
Raini village in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district from where the Chipko movement started in 1973 to protect and conserve trees and which bore the brunt of a glacial lake outburst flood in February 2021, ...
A string of beads around her neck and a woollen jacket slung over the traditional Garhwali attire, Juthi Devi is surprisingly sprightly for her age. The 70-year-old is one of the 135-odd surviving ...
It has been 50 years since Gaura Devi of Reni village in Chamoli district in Uttarakhand and her fearless companions stared down the barrel of a gun, refusing to allow the contractor’s men and ...
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