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Environmental journalism in India began in the 1920s, but that valuable phase is forgotten. What is remembered and lauded is the environmental journalism of the 80s, when academics, NGOs and social scientists took on the cause. ...
When we speak of environmental journalism in India, we have to see it against the backdrop of the environmental movement as a whole. The environmental movement in India has gone through two phases. ... There were a number of environmental thinkers and writers all through that period. ... But in India he is forgotten. ... The former wanted co-existence with nature while the latter felt that the concern for the environment was a deviation from the task of building an economically robust, industrially advanced India. ... Environmental considerations flee to the margins. ...
Against the backdrop of this broad historical canvas, let us look at the specific history of environmental journalism in India. ... This satyagraha was reported right through its course in both The Times of India and the Bombay Chronicle. ... " Wartys work is thus one of several isolated instances of early environmental journalism in India.
By the time we come to the early 70s we find that various struggles by grassroots people to protect the natural resources around them begin to take shape in hundreds of places all over India.
Approximate Word count = 1004
Approximate Pages = 4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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