Social activist Medha Patkar with farmers' leaders on the stage during a Kisan Panchayat at Bilari in Sambhal.
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Bharatiya Kisan Union Spokesperson Rakesh Tikait along with activist Medha Patkar and farmers leaders during the ongoing protest against the new farm laws, at Ghazipur border in Ne...
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Social activist Medha Patkar participates in 'Akhil Bharatiya Kisan Sabha' at Azad Maidan, in Mumbai.
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Social actvist Medha Patkar arrives to meet farmers, who are agitating against Centre's farm reform laws at Ghazipur border, in New Delhi.
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Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar along with contractual employees of BSNL shouts slogans during an agitation against the Central Government, in Kolkata.
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Social activist Medha Patkar along with others stage a protest in support of farmers' agitation against the Centre's agri-laws, at Azad Maidan in Mumbai.
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Social activist Medha Patkar addresses as farmers block Rajasthan-Haryana border during their protest against the new farm laws, at National Highway 48 in Rewari district.
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Social activist Medha Patkar addresses farmers during their protest against the new farm laws, at Ghazipur border in New Delhi.
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Social activists Medha Patkar takes part in farmers' agitation against the Center's new farm laws, near Ghazipur border in New Delhi.
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Social activists Medha Patkar takes part in farmers' agitation against the Center's new farm laws, at Singhu border in New Delhi.
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Social activist Medha Patkar with Bharatiya Kisan Union (BKU) spokesperson Rakesh Tikait, during the farmers' protest against new farm reform laws, at Ghazipur border in New Delhi.
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Social activist Medha Patkar interacts with farmers during their 'Delhi Chalo' protest march against the Centre's new farm laws, at Singhu border in New Delhi.
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Social activist Medha Patkar at Singhu border as farmers protest during their 'Delhi Chalo' march against the Centre's farm reform laws, in New Delhi. The farmers decided to contin...
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Social activist Medha Patkar addresses a press conference ahead of the national convention of river valleys, in Bhopal.
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CPI leader Kanhaiya Kumar (C) meets social activist Medha Patkar (L) and Mahatma Gandhi's great grandson Tushar Gandhi (R), during Nagrikta Bachao, Desh Bachao’ rally against CAA...
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Social activist Medha Patkar (L) speaks as Magsaysay Award winner and human rights activist Sandeep Pandey (R) looks on, during an interactive session on Anti CAA movement organise...
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Social activist Medha Patkar interacts with the Muslim women during a protest against CAA and NRC, in Mumbai.
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Social Activist Medha Patkar (C), AIMSS President Chhaya Mukherjee (L), AIMSS Secretary Keya Dey (R) during All India Womens Conference, in Kolkata.
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Social activist Medha Patkar addresses a protest against CAA/NRC at Delhi University's North Campus, in New Delhi.
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Social activist Medha Patkar addresses a convention against NRC-CAA-NPR, in Hyderabad.
Activists Medha Patkar and Shabnam Hashmi among hundreds of people from across India gathered at Parliament Street in central Delhi to celebrate International Human Rights Day.
The celebrated dissenter on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, mass uprisings in the Arab world, the Anna Hazare movement, her old comrades-in arm like Medha Patkar and Prashant Bhushan, Maoism, writing and much else.
The disdain with which Anna Hazare was treated for his praise of Modi’s rural development work in Gujarat shows that many of the “civil society" lack even elementary norms of civility even towards their own leaders.
Social acrtivist Medha Patkar has been at it for 30 years with Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA), protesting against large dams such as Sardar Sarovar on the river and demanding justice for the displaced.She talks to Outlook about the tougher challenges ahead...