A conservationist studies lessons on sustainability from the 600-year-old Bishnoi community
The Jaipur protest against the royal hunting party became the front-page story in the following morning’s edition of the ...
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The media conglomerate continued this tradition with its 28th edition of Devi Awards 2024 organised at ... advocate for Odia handloom and handicrafts Amrita Sabat; the Rasagola Lady who enabled ...
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My Head for a Tree: Read an exclusive excerpt from Martin Goodman’s book on the Bishnoi
The monsoon rains were recent so a woman of the village, Amrita Devi, was tending the crops ... Her life worked because she was a Bishnoi who lived by a clear set of twenty-nine rules set down ...
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Bishnois organise and educate themselves to take environment conservation beyond religion
In 1730, a local woman called Amrita Devi Bishnoi of the present day Khejrali village near Jodhpur was so steadfast in her belief of this tenet that she stood with an unwavering courage against a ...
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My Head for a Tree: Read an exclusive excerpt from Martin Goodman’s book on the Bishnoi
In an excerpt from the first chapter, Amrita Devi and the 363 Martyrs, Goodman recounts the legendary tale of lives sacrificed to save trees on Bishnoi land. On Monday 11 September 1730 (although ...