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022545
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Summary/Abstract |
Based on true events in India in the 1970s, young Aani and the other women in her village defend their forest from developers by wrapping their arms around the trees, making it impossible to cut them down.
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9781584300045
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Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
020859 | FIC/ATK | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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023540
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New Delhi, The Energy and Resources Institute, 2016.
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24pGreen Spine
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Caring for Nature
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Summary/Abstract |
Tells how women and children by most peaceful means by hugging the trees, saved the guardians of nature.
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9788179933626 Pb.
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Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
021645 | FIC/SEN | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
025482
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Chennai, Tulika Publishers, 2019.
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160pWhie spine
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The radical churn in society and politics, art and Culture, Science and Technology, which makes up the recent history of modern India, was propelled by individuals – women and men who had the vision, courage and determination to leave behind a footprint of change. This book spotlights 25 such game Changers. It looks at the times in which they lived, the challenges they dealt with, and the paths they forged. What emerges is the powerful journey of a country at the threshold of change, committed to charting its own course, helmed by its richest resource – its people.
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Rabindranath Tagore - He walked alone
Rakhmabai - Not without consent
Mahatma Gandhi - Bapu of the nation
Periyar E. V. Ramasamy - Crusader against caste
Begum Rokeya - She dared to dream
Subramania Bharati - Songs of freedom
C.V. Raman - The Raman effect
Jawaharlal Nehru - Building India
Babasaheb Ambedkar - Educate, agitate, organise
P.C. Mahalanobis - The face of figures
Satyendra Nath Bose - The man who counted photons
C.K. Nayudu - Cricket's first colossus
Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay - Crafting India
Rukmini Devi Arundale - A vision of dance
Dhyan Chand - Lightning stick
D.D. Kosambi - Rewriting history
Homi J. Bhabha - Atomic man
Dakshayani Velayudhan - First among equals
M.F. Husain - Barefoot and free
Begum Akhtar - Ghazal queen
M.S. Subbulakshmi - The MS Mystique
Satyajit Ray - Cinema's master
Mahasweta Devi - Write to fight
Sunderlal Bahuguna - Earth warrior
Aruna Roy - The right to demand
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9789389203172 Hb.
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Physicists - Biography
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Scientists - Biography
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Artists - Biography
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Authors - Biography
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Chipko movement - India - Uttaranchal - History
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Chipko movement - History
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Freedom fighters - India
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Tagore, Rabindranath, 1861-1941
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Ray, Satyajit, 1921-1992
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Ambedkar, B. R. (Bhimrao Ramji), 1891-1956
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UOI - Deforestation
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UOI - Art
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UOI - Rights and responsibilities
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UOI - National Pride
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Cricket players - India - Biography
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UOI - Education
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Raman, C. V. Sir, (Chandrasekhara Venkata) 1888-1970
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Physicists - India - Biography
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UOI - Leaders
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Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948
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Cricket captains - India - Biography
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Mathematicians - Biography
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Husain, M.F., 1915 - 2011
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Mathematicians - India - Biography
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Cricket players - Biography
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Singers - Biography
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Nehru, Jawaharlal, 1889-1964
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Roy, Aruna, 1946 -
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Bahuguna, Sunderlal, 1927 -
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Devi, Mahasweta, 1926 - 2016
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Faizabadi, Akhtari Bai, 1914 - 1974
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Velayudhan, Dakshayani, 1912 - 1978
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Bhabha, Homi J. (Jehangir), 1909 - 1966
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Kosambi, D.D. (Damodar Dharmananda), 1907 - 1966
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Chand, Dhyan, 1905 - 1979
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Arundale, Rukmini Devi, 1904 - 1986
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Chattopadhyay, Kamaladevi, 1903 - 1988
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Nayudu, C.K. (Cottari Kanakaiya), 1895 - 1967
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Bose, Satyendra Nath, 1894 - 1974
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Mahalanobis, P.C. (Prasanta Chandra), 1893 - 1972
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Bharati, Subramania, 1882 - 1921
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Hossain, Rokeya Sakhawat, 1880 - 1932
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Ramasamy, Periyar E.V. (Erode Venkatappa), 1879 - 1973
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Rakhmabai, 1864 - 1955
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Subbulakshmi, M.S. (Madurai Shanmukhavadivu), 1916 - 2004
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Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
023232 | 920/CAR | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
008467
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Publication |
India, Scholastic India Pvt. Ltd, 2006.
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40pWhite Spine
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Environment Watch
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Chandri believes that her Grandma's spirit lives on in an ash tree that grows in the forest near her village. But one day she sees a truckload of tree-fellers marking the trees to be cut down, and one of them is Grandma's tree! Will Chandri be able to save her beloved tree and forest?
This is an inspiring story based on a true incident and introduces children to the Chipko Movement and the people who pioneered it.
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8176554693 Pb.
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Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
008773 | FIC/MAN | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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ID:
002695
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India, The Energy and Resources Institute,
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Description |
30pWhite Spine
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Zara and her friends love their treehouse up in the old Gulmohur tree. it's where they play, study, share secrets, dream...When they find out that the tree would be cut down to make space for apartments, they gather all their strength and plan a strategy.
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8179930637 Pb.
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Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
002373 | FIC/OBE | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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