Sunderlal Bahuguna Blew the Bugle. Will We Heed It and Save Ourselves?
The author remembers a chance meeting in August 2010 with the Gandhian environmentalist alongside the Ganga.
Sunderlal Bahuguna. Photo: Twitter/@kuljitnagra1
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On May 21, 2021, I found out through a social media post that Sunderlal Bahunguna had passed away in Rishikesh. He had tested positive for COVID-19 three days earlier. I had only recently thought of him when multiple dead bodies were found floating on the Ganga, the river for whose preservation Bahuguna had dedicated his lifelong activism.
I thought of his forlorn eyes that held the Ganga in them, as I had witnessed up close one evening more than a decade ago.
Sumna, where the avalanche occurred on Friday, is located near the confluence of the Girthigad and Kiogad, two streams that originate from the Dhauli Ganga river, which witnessed a calamitous avalanche in February, killing 80 people and leaving 126 missing. Seven people injured in the incident are undergoing treatment. Five of them are receiving treatment at Joshimath Army Hospital.
Uttarakhand avalanche toll rises to 15
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Three people are still missing and efforts are on to locate them.
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Rescue operations after an avalanche hit a Border Roads Organisation (BRO) detachment and labour camps north of Joshimath in Uttarakhand, April 24, 2021
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Three people are still missing and efforts are on to locate them.
The death toll in an avalanche at Sumna near the Indo-China border in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli district rose to 15 on Monday with the recovery of three more bodies, an official said.
Three people are still missing and efforts are on to locate them, Chamoli Disaster Management Officer N K Joshi said.
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