At a time when reports are coming in of state action against members of the Dongria Kondh tribe in Odisha, their champion, Prafulla Samantara, has received the highest international honour and recognition that an environmentalist can get. Samantara, who rallied the Dongria Kondh tribals and helped them fight for right over their ancestral land, was conferred the Goldman Environmental Prize on Monday, termed the Green Nobel, in the US.
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