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Myth of the Urban Naxal
Six years after acquiring notoriety in the 2018 Bhima Koregaon case, the Urban Naxal threatens to haunt the citizens again, courtesy the Maharashtra Special Public Security Bill. Introduced ...
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AAP slams Delhi LG's letter on Kejriwal's food intake
The Aam Aadmi Party on Saturday assailed Lt Governor VK Saxena's communication for allegedly insinuating that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was "deliberately" making himself sick and ...
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Medha Patkar was born as Medha Khanolkar on 1 December 1954 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, the daughter of Vasant Khanolkar, a freedom fighter, and labour union leader, and his wife Indumati Khanolkar, a gazetted officer in the Post and Telegraphs Department. She has one brother, Mahesh Khanolkar, an architect. Medha Khanolkar earned an MA in Social Work from Tata Institute of Social Sciences.She was married for seven years (hence her surname Patkar) but the marriage ended in divorce.
Jul 5, 2024 · Medha Patkar (born December 1, 1954, Bombay [now Mumbai], Maharashtra state, India) is an Indian social activist known chiefly for her work with people displaced by the Narmada Valley Development Project (NVDP), a large-scale plan to dam the Narmada River and its tributaries in the Indian states of Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, and Maharashtra.
A Delhi court on Monday sentenced renowned social activist Medha Patkar to five months of imprisonment in a 23-year-old defamation case filed by the then president of the non-profit organisation ...
Feb 9, 2008 · Medha Patkar is an Indian activist and one of the initiators of The Save the Narmada Movement, Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA). The movement has mobilised people against huge dam projects since the late 1980s. The disastrous Narmada Valley dams project is the epitome of unsustainable development, for its huge ecological and social impact.
Jul 1, 2024 · A Delhi court on Monday sentenced activist Medha Patkar to five months imprisonment in a 23-year-old criminal defamation case filed by Delhi LG Vinai Kumar Saxena. Patkar was also directed to pay Rs 10 lakh compensation to Saxena. Taking into account her age and health condition, Raghav Sharma ...
1992 Goldman Prize winner for India, Medha Patkar (Photo: Goldman Environmental Prize) To date, as many as 35,000 people have been relocated by the project; however, they have not been adequately resettled and hundreds of families have returned to their home villages despite the constant threat of submergence.
Nov 27, 2022 · It was in 1985 that Medha Patkar, then just 31, left her PhD midway to jump headlong into the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA). Mumbai-born Patkar, the daughter of freedom fighter and labour union leader Vasant Khanolkar, had done her Masters in Social Work from the Tata Institute of Social Sciences and from her early years got involved in several causes involving generally the “oppressed” and poor.
Both Patkar and the Delhi LG have been locked in a legal battle since 2000 after she filed a suit against him for publishing advertisements against her and the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA).
Founder of the Narmada Bachao Andolan 34 years ago and co-founder of the National Alliance of People’s Movements, she is a strong advocate of causes of diverse sections like the tribals, dalits ...
Medha Patkar is the face of the NBA, arguably one of the largest people’s struggles worldwide. The World Bank-financed Sardar Sarovar and other big dam projects were coming up on the Narmada river about the time Medha began working in the tribal areas of Gujarat, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh. In 1985, she organized the peasants and tribals ...
