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Who is Disha Ravi, arrested in the Greta Thunberg toolkit case? Quartz 15/02/2021 © Provided by Quartz 2018 was the year when Greta Thunberg took the world by storm. The Swedish climate change activist, then 15 years old, started Fridays for Future, which calls itself as “a global people’s movement for climate justice.” In India, Disha Ravi, a college student at Mount Carmel College in Bengaluru, plunged in. She started Fridays for Future India, coordinating strikes in different areas in the city every Friday, as she told Citizen Matters in 2019. Her motivation to become a climate a...

February 15, 2021 2018 was the year when Greta Thunberg took the world by storm. The Swedish climate change activist, then 15 years old, started Fridays for Future, which calls itself as “a global people’s movement for climate justice.” In India, Disha Ravi, a college student at Mount Carmel College in Bengaluru, plunged in. She started Fridays for Future India, coordinating strikes in different areas in the city every Friday, as she told Citizen Matters in 2019. Her motivation to become a climate activist stemmed from watching her grandparents, who are farmers, struggle with the eff...

Ravi is a 21-year old who volunteers with Fridays for Future, a movement started by Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.

A student of Mount Carmel College in Bengaluru, Disha is among the notable climate activists in India. She had, in 2019, started the Fridays for Future (FFF) India - an initiative linked to Greta Thunberg’s Fridays for Future movement.

Disha Ravi, 22 was arrested in Bengaluru and appeared in a New Delhi court on Sunday