This Celebrated Poet Also Saved the Silent Valley & Turned a Barren Hill Green
While Sugathakumari’s poems initially began as accounts of a tragic quest for love, her work eventually evolved to incorporate feminist responses to increasing social and environmental injustice and disorder.
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In the 1970s, a massive environmental movement was sweeping the nation. The Save Silent Valley campaign was India’s largest environmental debate that decade a call to save the Silent Valley, one of the last undisturbed tracts of the Southern Western Ghats’ mountain rainforests, from being flooded by an imminent hydroelectric project. The Valley is home to rich endemic biodiversity and a few indigenous communities.
Will hold tractor parade towards Delhi on January 26 if demands not met: Farmer unions
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January 2, 2021
New Delhi, Jan 1: Hardening their position ahead of the next round of talks with the government, protesting farmer unions on Saturday said they will take out a tractor parade towards Delhi on January 26, when the country will celebrate Republic Day, if their demands are not met.
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will be in the national capital on January 26. He will be the chief guest at the Republic Day parade which will be held at Rajpath.
Addressing a press conference, farmer leader Darshan Pal Singh said their proposed parade will be called Kisan Parade and it will be be held after the Republic Day parade.
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The Kerala State Women’s Commission has registered a suo motu case in connection with the incident in which a young woman was subjected to striptease at a mall at Edappally recently.
The commission asked the District Police Chief (Kochi City) to conduct a detailed probe and submit a report on the incident. M.C. Josephine, Commission Chairperson, also urged establishments to take necessary measures to safeguard women from such incidents in public places.
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It s a political murder; truth should be exposed soon: HDK on S L Dharmegowda s suicide
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Bengaluru, Dec 29: Condoling the demise of SL Dharmegowda, Deputy Speaker of Karnataka Legislative Council, JD(S) leader and former Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy on Tuesday termed it as political murder . It is a political murder that has taken place today. The truth should come out as soon as possible about who is responsible for his death, said Kumaraswamy. Dharmegowda s suicide is a sacrifice for today s polluted, unprincipled, and selfish politics. The secularism of JDS was tested for the position of Chairperson but in this test, Dharmegowda s heart became the victim. Those who tested it may now get the answer, he added.
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