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Chipko: India’s tree-hugging women

Chipko: India’s tree-hugging women

FromThe History Hour


Chipko: India’s tree-hugging women

FromThe History Hour

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Length:
50 minutes
Released:
Aug 7, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

The story of the famed 1970s Indian conservation movement. Plus we speak to Professor Vinita Damodaran about the history of Indian environmentalism. Also Patti Boulaye on escaping the Biafran war, we hear from Dorothy Butler Gilliam - an African American news pioneer, why Afghanistan's first private radio station helped change a generation, and memories of a taboo-breaking gay support group in 1990s India.

(Photo by Bhawan Singh/The The India Today Group via Getty Images)
Released:
Aug 7, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode

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An hour of historical reporting told by the people who were there.