Today, the Chipko Movement remains the most prominent forest conservation movement to have emerged from our state of Uttarakhand and its prevalence continues to ring loud and clear. It has been 50 ...

As a participant in the Chipko movement and an inhabitant of the Chipko region, I felt that what I had been reading in some books and magazines was very different from what really happened or was ...

Haripriya Rangan teaches geography and environmental sciences at the University of Melbourne. She tells Times Evoke about the iconic Chipko accord: Tired of too many ads?go ad free now Most of my work ...

Over email, the academic-author-traveller talks about what he finds objectionable about the conversation around the Chipko Movement, the popularity of tree plantation drives, and the way forward for ...

Imagine a time before hashtags and viral campaigns, when a movement sparked a global conversation about the environment. Picture villagers, their voices strong and hearts resolute, standing firm ...

Juthi Devi, daughter-in-law of one of the pioneers of the Chipko movement, clasps the trunk of a tree in Raini village in October. Almost 50 years ago, women in Raini, Uttarakhand, used their bodies ...

What does the term "tree hugger" mean? Today in the West, it's often used as a flippant pejorative (or worn as a badge of honour), but it stems from a story of stunning defiance and vicious bloodshed.

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’ ...

A group of residents and tree lovers from the developing Kolshet area of Thane staged an impromptu campaign reminiscent of the Chipko movement on Sunday morning to save nearly 400 plus trees scheduled ...