Yesterday #StanSwamy died, after eight months in prison conditions that exacerbated his Parkinson's. He was one of the jailed human-rights advocates aka #BhimaKoregaon 16. The story of the evidence against them is... amazing and bizarre, and is worth going over. A thread.

#khorigaon on the ground today. You will see loads of images of homes breaking but this one sums it up for me. Women crying in the streets with their children watching their homes break. @NetworkYugma Disha Ravi 🇵🇸𓆉

🇮🇳 UN experts call on #India to halt evictions of some 100,000 people that began this week in midst of monsoon rains. India must urgently review its plans for razing #KhoriGaon & consider regularizing the settlement so as not to leave anyone homeless. 👉 ow.ly/Gt3q50Fxgep

Here is an interactive timeline plotting accidents in & around hydropower sites in Himachal Pradesh. Key problem: wrong siting, poor EIAs, safety violations & negligence in a fragile landscape being devastated due to the global push for 'green' growth. himdhara.org/hydropower/int…

#KNOWTHEARAVALLIS Palash (flame of forest) is a tree that dots the landscape of Aravallis. According to experts, this tree comes first in the process of Natural Aforestation. It has many medicinal uses for treating various diseases and mining will only cease its existence here.

“My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings; Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.” See the mountain we created Gurgaon #AravalliBlackDay #NoWTEinAravallis

In case you were starting to think that waste-to-energy plants are a good idea, here is an update from the Okhla WTE plant. #NoToWTE #AravalliBachao MoEF&CC NITI Aayog Manohar Lal Arvind Kejriwal AAP Hindustan Times Bahar Dutt Neelam Ahluwalia prerna singh bindra 🐘🐅🐾 Rahul Gandhi IFC

Breaking news: Supreme court holds that Areas notified under special order under section 4 of Punjab land preservation act is forest land and provisions of forest conservation act will apply. Order to apply to aravalis..copy of judgement awaited

Please join us in honouring the brave heart DSP Surender Singh who was killed while trying to #StopIllegalMining in Nuh Aravallis. Google location of meeting point in Gurgaon: goo.gl/maps/yeA1aR9YX… Please take approach road to meeting point from Gurgaon-Faridabad road side.

Hardeep Singh Puri Sir, 3 months have passed since you told us when we met you on 13.09.22 that you will call for stakeholder consultation to discuss & #ReviseNCRdraftplan2041 We request you to give us a date for this meeting & invite experts also. #AravalliUnderThreat #SaveNCR

Kudos to Gurugram Anti-Mining Task Force 4 bringing 300 acres vulnerable to illegal mining in Rithoj village under CCTV Camera+Drone Surveillance. #AravalliBachao Movement urges all DCs to mandate use of Drones for monitoring illegal mining in all 8 Aravalli districts of Haryana

On the Forest Conservation Act Amendment from my book 'Pugmarks and Carbon Footprints': amazon.in/Pugmarks-Carbo… (first published in The Hindu, 10th October, 2021) #FCA #ForestConservationAct #cartoons #greenhumour #MoEFCC #tiger #india #scrapforestconservationamendmentbill2023

With starting of the monsoon session of parliament when Forest Conservation Amendment Bill 2023 is expected to be passed, citizens held peaceful demonstrations across the Aravalli range. Unified demand from all rural+urban citizens is to #ScrapForestConservationAmendmentBill2023

India is at a crossroads. So are our #Forests. As the Union Govt. races to dilute laws that would open up our forests to more corporate plunder & dispossess forest dwelling communities, join us in resisting these anti-national changes! #ScrapForestConservationAmendmentBill2023

Uttarakhand is the most landslide prone state yet road building project continue unabated, without proper planning and clearances Pushkar Singh Dhami CM Office Uttarakhand