Life history of sunderlal bahuguna in hindi
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[Obituary] Sunderlal Bahuguna: End of an era for Indian environmentalism
- Noted Gandhian Sunderlal Bahuguna, known for leading Chipko in the 1970s and the anti-Tehri dam Movement in the 1990s, breathed his last on May 21, 2021.
- He practised a simple and sustainable lifestyle inspiring many who immensely contributed to the cause.
- Bahuguna advocated for an integrated and pragmatic approach for the conservation of the entire Himalayan belt and foot-marched almost 5,000 kilometres from Kashmir in northern India to Kohima in eastern India.
Kya hain jangal ke upkaar
Mitti paani aur bayaar
Mitti paani aur bayaar
Zinda Rahne ke Aadhar
(What are the blessings of forests on us. They provide us healthy soil, clean water and air which make life possible for us.)
This legendry slogan coined by journalist and poet Kunwar Prasun has echoed in the Himalayan valleys since the 1970s and galvanised an entire generation of environmentalists in the region. It was popularised by Su
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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.
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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 liten sjö 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 förfäder bearing surname Bandyopadhyaya, migrated from Bengal to Tehri, 800 years ago.[7] Early on, he fought against untouchability and later s