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Critical Analysis Of The Chipko Andolan By Rabindranath Tagore

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“Nature has enough for everyone’s need but not enough for everyone’s greed” these were the words of Mahatma Gandhi. The basic inference that we can draw from this quote can be associated with only two words, “Greed” and “Need”. It is a common mentality for people to think that any place that is an ideal location for a good livelihood can be taken for granted and exploited to its maximum potential despite considering the causes for their actions.
Throughout the course of the novel, Nirmal has been portrayed as a character that believes in this mentality, he believed that it was justified for the refugees from Bangladesh to settle in the island of morchijhapi, which indicates he is in favour of humans destroying nature as the refugees have already started deforestation, constructed buildings and exploit, the already endangered sea life and wildlife of that region. In the second half of the book Nilima tries to convince her husband …show more content…

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The chipko Andolan by Arvind Singhal, http://we-earth.blogspot.in/2012/12/chipko-movementandolan-movement-to-save.html The guardian, Article on “Humans have destroyed a tenth of Earth’s remaining wilderness in the last 25 years” https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/08/humans-have-destroyed-a-tenth-of-earths-wilderness-in-25-years-study The book “The Hungry Tide” by Amitav Ghosh
International Day of Forests, Forestry Debate: Forests and Climate Change http://www.fao.org/fileadmin/templates/rap/files/meetings/2015/150320_report.pdf RELIGION: A SAVIOUR FOR ENVIRONMENT

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