Short biography of sunderlal bahuguna
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Sunderlal Bahuguna: The man who taught India to hug trees
India correspondent
"We are doing violence towards the earth, towards nature. We have become butchers of nature," Sunderlal Bahuguna once told an interviewer.
Bahuguna, who died with Covid-19 on Thursday aged 94, was known the world over as the man who taught Indians to hug trees to protect the environment. He was one of the main leaders of the Chipko movement in northern India in the 1970s. In Hindi, chipko literally means "hugging".
Heeding calls by Bahuguna and fellow activist Chandi Prasad Bhatt, men and women in the Indian Himalayas embraced and chained themselves to trees to stop loggers from cutting them down. It was a powerful symbol that conveyed, 'Our bodies before our trees'.
It also became a movement that brought to the world's attention the devastation wrought by the environmental crisis in the world's highest mountains.
A devastating flood in Uttarakhand in 1970 had come as a rude awakening for villagers. They woke up to the "tenuous links between deforestation, landslides and floods", noted Ramachandra Guha, a historian who has chronicled the Chipko movement.
Three years later, Bahu
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Sunderlal Bahuguna
Indian environmental activist (1927–2021)
Sunderlal Bahuguna (9 January 1927 – 21 May 2021) was an Indian environmentalist and Chipko movement leader. The idea of the Chipko movement was suggested by his wife Vimla Bahuguna and him. He fought for the preservation of forests in the Himalayas, first as a member of the Chipko movement in the 1970s, and later spearheaded the anti-Tehri Dam movement from the 1980s to early 2004.[4] He was one of the early environmentalists of India,[5] and later he and others associated with the Chipko movement and started taking up wider environmental issues, such as being opposed to large dams.[6]
Early life
[edit]Sunderlal Bahuguna was born in the village Maroda near Tehri, Uttarakhand. He claimed in a function arranged at Kolkata, that his ancestors bearing surname Bandyopadhyaya, migrated from Bengal to Tehri, 800 years ago.[7] Early on, he fought against untouchability and later started organising hill women in his anti-liquor drive from 1965 to 1970.[8] He started social activities at the age of 13, under the guidance of Shri Dev Suman, who was a nationalist spreading a message of non-violence,[9] and he was with the Congress Party of Uttar Pradesh at th
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[Obituary] Sunderlal Bahuguna: End longawaited an period for Soldier environmentalism
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