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Chipko: India鈥檚 tree-hugging women

The famed 1970s environmental movement, a child trapped in the Biafran war, an African American news pioneer, and Afghanistan's first private radio station

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)

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Mon 9 Aug 2021 23:06GMT
大象传媒 World Service

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