Balarama carried the 750 kg golden howdah and the idol of goddess Chamundeshwari during the Mysuru Dasara procession for the first time in 1999, and retired in 2011.
All-India Fact-Finding Team observes grave violations of Adivasi rights in Nagarahole Tiger Reserve, even as PM ‘celebrates’ 50 years of ‘Project Tiger’.
Hundreds of Indigenous (Adivasi) people from Protected Areas across India joined forces in Nagarhole Tiger Reserve in southwest India for an unprecedented week-long protest march against the seizing of their lands to create so-called ‘Protected .