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Published in AGAPP

·Mar 19

N teenth protest

( This was written and “published” from the writer’s end first week of March. But with Medium’s multiple steps to submit, submit, add publication, publish, somehow did not get on the Blogs until March 19. ) Dr Ashma Shourie, our creative AGAPPer and chief protest organiser has done it …

Activism

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N teenth protest
N teenth protest

Published in AGAPP

·Feb 1

Watching an Icon in Action

Medha Patkar was here and who is she ? — On 21 Nov 2021, AGAPP ( Action Group Against Plastic Pollution members) Gunwant and I were there when Medha Patkar was shown the potential ravages by a planned industrial project to the Mattewara forest near Ludhiana as well as its surrounding villages. A Public Action Committee (PAC) and Naroa Punjab…

Medha Patkar

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Watching an Icon in Action
Watching an Icon in Action

Published in AGAPP

·Jan 19

A Fine Protest Day Jan 19

Prologue On the way to the PPCB protest this morning, there was a pleasant prelude. Mr Jagdish Nanda and I ,driven by Sunil, arrived at the Hwy toll plaza close to Ludhiana. …

Jalandhar

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A Fine Protest Day Jan 19
A Fine Protest Day Jan 19

Published in AGAPP

·Jan 2

Gender Inequity and Other Peeves

Vatavaran lok sammelan was organised by Ludhiana’s environmental NGOs to involve politicians in this green manifesto they have prepared. These NGOs had had a press conference the previous week in Jalandhar where I was taken aback as I read another copy of the green manifesto (from the one I had…

Gender

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Gender Inequity and Other Peeves
Gender Inequity and Other Peeves

Published in AGAPP

·Dec 11, 2021

Insights after Day 5 of public protesting

MCJ Protest V: 10th December, 2021 — Insights after Day 5 of public protesting It took a while for the next episode promised in my last essay “In search of the Living”. Shouting slogans and singing was the special flavor of our fifth MCJ protest this week. Khalsa College had seven faculty members join us for ninety…

Activism

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Insights after Day 5 of public protesting
Insights after Day 5 of public protesting

Nov 27, 2021

Gunwant sums it well.

Gunwant sums it well. The health commissioner parroted that they were doing challans in shops. I listened for about a minute ( felt like a minute but remember that Einstein hot stove analogy-- well drudgery and parroted rhetoric are our hot stove at this point in AGAPP's agitation against single…

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Published in AGAPP

·Nov 10, 2021

In search of the living

It is two days after Diwali. The COP 26 climate summit is on. Ten thousand people are marching in Glasgow the coming weekend. I am trying to gather twenty people to protest outside the Municipal Corporation Jalandhar on Nov 9, our planned start of weekly protests in Jalandhar city. …

Plastic Pollution

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In search of the living
In search of the living

Published in AGAPP

·Aug 23, 2021

Dystopia I

Navneet Bhullar This month, we passed one year since AGAPP was conceptualised and named in August 2020. The covid-19 pandemic had changed the world into a dystopia out of science fiction that year. I had to get a letter from a doctor to visit India a month before that. “Only…

Plastic Pollution

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Dystopia I
Dystopia I
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