Murali Sivaramakrishnan is a poet, painter, professor and literary critic. He retired as Professor and Chair of the Department of English, Pondicherry University.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction: Chipko’s Pedigree and Presence: Through the Looking Glass of Culture and History
Murali Sivaramakrishnan

1. 50 Years of India’s Chipko Movement
Bharat Dogra
2. Situating the Chipko Movement in Its Historical Context
Dhirendra Dangwal
3. On How the Chipko Movement Tells Us What We ‘Owe’ to Society and Ourselves
Samir Banerjee
4. Chipko Andolan’s Eco-Cultural Forest Poetics
Kamala Platt
5. Women and Nature in Transnational Narratives: The Power of Feminine Spiritualism Through Words
Carmen Escobedo de Tapia
6. The Chipko Movement, Ecofeminism and After
Usha V. T.
7. Embracing Earth: Gender, Mythology, and Environmentalism in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Activism within the Context of the Chipko Movement
Asunción López-Varela Azcárate and Daniela Sandoval Fierro
8. From the Himalaya to the Western Ghats: Relevance of Chipko
Pandurang Hegde
9. Sunderlal Bahuguna: Himalaya’s Foot Soldier
Ashish Kothari
10. Vimla and Sunderlal Bahuguna in the Chipko Movement
George Alfred James
11. Deep Ecology and the Role of Women in Sikkim Himalayas
Jayita Sengupta
12. Ecocinema: The Chipko Movement on Film
Nikhila S.

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