Lamakaan presents Activist in Residence TREPAN SINGH CHAUHAN

Title of the talk: From Chipko to Fascism: The Story of a Small State - Uttarakhand

The Chipko movement of the 1970s and 80s marks the explosion of mass political conciousness that is to transform into the popular movement for a separate "small" state and eventually the formation of Uttarakhand in 20**. TSC will walk us through the two decades of struggle but even more importantly the rapid transformation of caste and class in Uttarakhand over the last decade and the emergence of a new elite. His talk will offer lens through which we might reflect on the emergence and consequences of Telangana.

About TREPAN SINGH CHAUHAN

TSC is a militant political activist and renowned novelist-poet who has for over two decades now been at the center of grassroots people's movements and a visionary voice on the future of the mountains and it's people. Trepan' started his political life as a young 14-year-old militant with the Chipki movement and by the middle 1990s he and other youth had articulated a new movement - Chetna Andolan - that not only became the 'peoples rights' voice of the Statehood movement but has since its formation articulated a vision of Uttarakhand as an experiment in Social Justice.

Apart from countless popular essays and pamphlets, TSCs short stories, poems, and novels have established him as one of the most important emergent voices in Hindi literature. His five novels -- Sarjan Navyug ka, Yumuna, Bhaag ki phans, He Byari and Darwaze ke Peeche have won him much critical acclaim.

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