Re: Conservation Awards

Vasudev Murthy (murthy@ssd.dl.nec.com)
Mon, 9 Dec 1991 09:18:01 CST

[ OK, folks. "Third time's a charm, as they say." The problem was
that Vasudev put a period in the first position of the line, which
some mailers take to mean "end-of-message." Sorry. --Gary ]

In response to my post on soc.culture.indian, I received the following

--- Forwarded mail from ngrjn@milton.u.washington.edu (V Nagarajan)

Article: 32506 of soc.culture.indian
>From: ngrjn@milton.u.washington.edu (V Nagarajan)
Subject: Re: Conservation Awards
>Date: 6 Dec 91 07:09:49 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

In article <1991Dec5.143712.24170@ssd.dl.nec.com> murthy@ssd.dl.nec.com
(Vasudev Murthy) writes:
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> India Abroad says Medha Patkar was arrested while
> preparing to leave India to accept the award.

There is a nice write-up on Medha Patkar in The Hindu of 25 Nov 1991.
[V --> The Hindu is a very respected English
Newspaper published from Madras, India]
According to the article, she had been arrested by the Madhya Pradesh
police who were prepared to release her on her own cognizance but
Medha Patkar refused to leave the jail unless her release was un-
conditional. She was eventually let go. The last word was that she
would receive the award in person. An associate of her has been
detained, however, on the same trumped-charges.
Hopefully this award is a shot in the arm for Narmada Bachao Andholan.
God knows we do need more activist heros like Medha Patkar.

- Nagarajan

--- End of forwarded message from ngrjn@milton.u.washington.edu (V Nagarajan)

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