Pune-based Sumita Kale, an economist and alumna of Cambridge University and Sushma Date, a paediatrician by profession, who are intensely pursuing a campaign to save the Vetal Tekdi hill—the largest green lung of Pune—tweeted as follows
At the outset, Deepak Bache-Patil was not into any activism. As a youngster, he was an avid trekker, trudging along historic forts and nature trails of the Sahyadri mountains and water bodies. However, on one such trail along the Pawna dam near the industrial belt of Pimpri-Chinchwad, he encountered a scenario that changed his life from a nature-lover to a truth-seeker.