RANCHI: The noted artist-cum-campaigner fighting for preservation of tribal art and culture of Hazaribag, Bulu Imam, and human rights activist from Chhattisgarh, Binayak Sen, have been jointly selected to receive the Gandhi Foundation's International Peace Award 2011.
The foundation's executive committee unanimously decided to give its 2011 peace award to "the tribal people of India" selecting Imam and Sen to receive the award on behalf of tribal people in a ceremony in London later this year.
Confirming the selection, foundation's trustee Omar Hayat, in an email sent to TOI, said Gandhi Foundation is giving this award "to the tribal people of India as it wants to highlight the importance of their culture and the damage being done by large corporations to these indigenous people's habitat, way of life and livelihood and the rising level of violence occurring in these areas". More...http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Binayak+Sen
The foundation's executive committee unanimously decided to give its 2011 peace award to "the tribal people of India" selecting Imam and Sen to receive the award on behalf of tribal people in a ceremony in London later this year.
Confirming the selection, foundation's trustee Omar Hayat, in an email sent to TOI, said Gandhi Foundation is giving this award "to the tribal people of India as it wants to highlight the importance of their culture and the damage being done by large corporations to these indigenous people's habitat, way of life and livelihood and the rising level of violence occurring in these areas". More...http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Binayak+Sen
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