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TRIBUNE INDIA, May 6, 2006 PHOTOS: MUKESH AGGARWAL While many of their counterparts rock, these youngsters from diverse backgrounds find fulfilment in rallying to a cause. For them, association with social movements is the way forward. They share their thoughts with The Tribune‘s Vibha Sharma in Delhi This April saw the Capital teeming with hundreds…

FROM AID, AUSTIN. BHOPAL INITIATIVE April 15, 2006: Indefinite hunger strike Day 3 As the fast moves into its third day, Diane is in Crawford, TX today in a rally in front of George Bush’s ranch. Gauri spoke to Diane and learnt that Diane has been very vocal about Bhopal and has got 25 more…

FROM AID, AUSTIN, BHOPAL INITIATIVE April 14, 2006: Indefinite hunger strike Day 2 Photographs Pragya: Student traffic was sparse, yet Diane was as energetic as ever, not letting the heat nor the rare signup get to her. When I asked her about her meeting with Cindy Sheehan, Diane gave the following reply: She was very….ordinary.…

FROM AID, AUSTIN, BHOPAL INITIATIVE April 13, 2006: Indefinite hunger strike Day 1 Photographs Vinod: Today Diane started her indefinite hunger strike in solidarity with the Bhopalis fasting in New Delhi. She started her fast at the stroke of midnight in Seabrook, TX, and then drove over to Austin in the wee hours of the…

from Nishant in Delhi: The biggest news today, to be taken with a generous pinch of salt, was the announcement by Gas Relief Minister Babulal Gaur. In a usual pompous fashion he proclaimed to have allocated 17 crores to provide clean drinking water from the Kolar Dam. It was not an official press release, nor…

from ANABRANCHED in Delhi: I think that yesterday evening was difficult for our hunger strikers. Everyone got pretty quiet as the day progressed. Their eyes had a uniformly glassy look, no matter how brave their words were. Thankfully there was entertainment to take their minds off their bellies. Several students gave a poetry reading, followed…

TODAY’S PRESS RELEASE: BHOPAL SURVIVORS LAUNCH INDEFINITE DHARNA AT PARLIAMENT STREET Day 35: Sunday, March 26th, 2006 Sunday was the prescribed day of rest for the group. We stayed for most of the day here at the Bharat Scout and Guide Camp facility. Just before noon we entered an empty, ancient building just a hundred…

BREAKING NEWS: PRESS RELEASE • LATEST NEWS COVERAGE Day 34: Saturday – March 25, 2006 We crossed the Haryana border into Delhi within an hour of beginning to walk from Faridabad this morning. The border patrol asked for an entry tax of Rs. 550. We told them they could choose between Rs. 50 or nothing…

Day 31: Wednesday, March 22 We decided to stay for another night, making Wednesday the closest thing to a day of rest we’ve had on the whole padyatra. After a slow morning of chai and laundry, we began a group meeting at 11 a.m. First on the agenda was our schedule. A large portion of…

Day 29: Monday, March 20 After a massive pot of black tea at sunrise, we got back on the shoulder of the highway and began walking. An elder hamming it up We had walked about 20 kilometers before we took refuge for food and rest in the village of Kosi Kala Navipur behind the Picnic…

Day 25: Thursday 16th March We began walking out of Agra just as the sun rose. After about an hour of walking through the streets at dawn, we passed a magnificent building that we quickly identified as the tomb of Akbar the Great. Everyone decided to go have a look and we spent a few…

Day 22: Monday March 13 Monday was a difficult day. We had to walk 28 kilometers before ourfirst meal – from Dholpur all the way to the Rajasthan-Uttar Pradesh border. There, just over the border in Uttar Pradesh, we stopped for rest and to cook a meal outside a small government building. The lunch was…

Day 20, Saturday March 11 We left Gwalior at sunrise and began walking the 18 kilometers to Banmore, an industrial town in which we had hoped to spend some time. Because we have to be in Agra early on the 14th (three days) and it was still over 100 km away, we decided to make…

Updated on Friday 10 March 2006 We are now in Gwalior, population around a million and a half, at the Sindhi Bhavan Dharmshala, which is a sort of hostel. We have just crossed an extremely bleak and somewhat treacherous stretch of about 100 km that lies between here and Shivpuri to the south. During that…

Saturday 4th March 2.30pm: We are mostly in good spirits although clearly suffering from sore feet, blisters and aching joints at best; at worst a few are putting a very brave face on sickness, diarrhoea and extreme joint and body pain. We decided to stop short of Shivpuri today, where we were supposed to stop…