This Celebrated Poet Also Saved the Silent Valley & Turned a Barren Hill Green
This Celebrated Poet Also Saved the Silent Valley & Turned a Barren Hill Green While Sugathakumari’s poems initially began as accounts of a tragic quest for love, her work eventually evolved to incorporate feminist responses to increasing social and environmental injustice and disorder. Post author: In the 1970s, a massive environmental movement was sweeping the nation. The Save Silent Valley campaign was India’s largest environmental debate that decade — a call to save the Silent Valley, one of the last undisturbed tracts of the Southern Western Ghats’ mountain rainforests, from bein...