Entitled Shankar Guha Niyogi: A Politics in Red and Green, the book draws extensively on personal interviews as well as on fugitive sources in Hindi. In 1977, Guha Niyogi helped found the Chhattisgarh Mines Shramik Sangh, its name signalling its primary concern with the rights of mineworkers. Krishnan also quotes Guha Niyogi as writing: "The Chipko movement enthuses us and we recognize it as a revolutionary movement." Reading her book, I was struck by the parallels between Guha Niyogi and the great Chipko leader, Chandi Prasad Bhatt. For few Indians in the history of our Republic have embodied the values of liberty, equality and (especially) fraternity as admirably as Shankar Guha Niyogi.

Source: The Telegraph January 24, 2026 01:38 UTC