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Renowned environmentalist, Sunderlal Bahugana.
Through the Looking Glass:

Sunderlal Bahuguna

SHRUTI RAMESH meeting with the then Prime
Minister in 1980, a legislation
Prominent Indian environ was passed to ban the cutting of
mentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna trees in the Himalayan forests
succumbed to COVID-19 on for 15 years. During his journey,
21st May 2021, at the age of he spearheaded multiple strikes, A teach for India classroom
94. Most popularly known for marches, and talks to shed
protest against the construction being ecologically sound and to Teach for India
the Chipko Movement and his awareness on the importance of
of Tehri Dam, Bahuguna left a promote sustainable living. His
lasting impression on people passion for nature even won him India should be educated, and not makes them more confident and
from across the globe. A man the Padma Vibhushan in 2009. GAYATRI RAMYA KOTHURI just the kids from Maharashtra experienced as a leader which
of the mountains, Sunderlal “Be the change you wish to achieve their goal of ending can be seen by everything the
Bahuguna dedicated his life Bahuguna’s followers credit to see”; Teach for India has the educational inequity in the alumni did after their fellowship.
to the conservation of nature. his warm nature and charismatic
While his journey began as a personality with their motivation asked its fellows to take this whole country. The organization Teach For India Alumni are
wide-eyed teenager, it was the to take on his pursuits both famous quote by Mahatma convinces low-income school serving more than 33 million
Chipko Movement in the ’70s that locally and internationally. His Gandhi since the idea was in principals to let the fellows children; 1 in 10 Indian children
teach in their school where
the development stage.
put him on the map. Originally mantra, “ecology is permanent the fellows not only teach the is now approached by a Teach
his wife’s idea, the movement economy”, inspired myriads The fellowship focuses on children studies but the way to For India Alumni. A recent study
sought to curb deforestation of people to follow in his the development of the children also says that the community
through a peaceful Gandhian footsteps. If there are several academically and by virtue live life cheerfully and develop has founded more than 150
protest involving “hugging” young environmentalists and and helps the fellows grow as the potential in them through organizations. “Everything
trees to impede felling. The climate activists in India today, a person. The movement was arts.While helping a child find you do comes back to you”;
movement gained widespread it is only because Sunderlal initiated in 2006 by Shaheen their potential, fellows learn Teach for India shows us this
to see the best in a person and
traction, and Bahuguna’s Bahuguna sowed the seeds Mistri after 17 years of the how to make them achieve it. quote in reality. While helping
popularity rose amongst rural of environmentalism in the Akanksha Foundation and is the kids grow as a person and
folk, who he believed were the country. One can only hope operational in Mumbai, Pune, Through all the struggles making their lives better, the
best protectors of nature. Such that his spirit will carry on in Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, of teaching, they learn to be people connected to the cause
was the influence of Sunderlal the hearts of nature-lovers for Bengaluru, and Ahmedabad. She more patient, determined, and grow as a person themselves
Bahuguna that, after a brief generations to come. felt that all the kids throughout imaginative. Seeing each kid grow and get a purpose in life.

Suspense in the absence of uncertainty

ANAHITA GUPTA reread Dennis Lehane’s ‘Shutter The desire-frustration theory
Island’ and, nevertheless, on the explains that neither entertained
How is it that one feels suspense second, third, and hundredth nor actual uncertainty is necessary
after repeated viewing of a film or time around still be caught in for suspense. The emotional
re-reading a book? Even though a similar grip of suspense that misidentification view holds
it is believed to be somewhat ensnared them in the first place. that the viewers are not feeling
set in stone in philosophy and Like all paradoxes, several suspense, only anticipation by
psychology that suspense requires solutions have been proposed. having misidentified the emotion
uncertainty, many claim to they are experiencing.
have watched their favorite The thought theory of Though the four theories
film various times and still be entertained uncertainty argues each have their own set of
able to find it suspenseful. The that suspense requires entertained complications, two facts can
conflict between the theory of uncertainty, not actual. Suspense be concluded - one, the rate of
suspense and the account of can be easily created by merely
viewers creates a problem we imagining that an event’s outcome suspense often declines after
we have watched a movie, and
know as the paradox of suspense. is uncertain. continues to do so on subsequent
It is an incontrovertible fact The moment-by-moment viewings and two, although
that people can consume the forgetting proposes that while narrative fiction is extremely
same suspense fiction again viewers are immersed in a effective at creating a suspenseful
and again with only a slight fictional scenario, they effectively environment, we rarely feel
loss of affect. Someone may cannot remember the outcome. suspense in our everyday lives. Noël Carroll offered a persuasive account on dissolving the paradox