'Chipko Andolan' Was The Strongest Movement To Conserve Forests & India Needs It Again
Women and men standing around trees, hugging them, holding each other’s hands -- This was the scene in a village in Uttar Pradesh in 1973, now in Uttarakhand, where the modern Chipko Movement took birth under the aegis of Sunderlal Bahuguna, a noted Garhwali environmentalist. This was the strongest form of resistance against rampant cutting of trees, where people asserted their rights over nature, vowing to protect it.