by State government launches eco-tourism programme in a forest preserve that was declared a protected area in 1978 after the previous logging concession was withdrawn, tourism materials describe the forest as ‘pristine and untouched natural heritage’ without referencing the logging that preceded its protection or the protection that enabled its recovery
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Himachal Pradesh’s tourism department launched the Karsog Valley Eco-Tourism Initiative, promoting the valley’s 12,000 hectares of forest as “pristine, untouched Himalayan wilderness offering authentic nature immersion for discerning eco-travellers.” The valley’s forests are protected under a 1978 state government order that declared the area a forest preserve, withdrawing the existing timber concession following environmental advocacy by local communities and national NGOs who documented the concession’s impact on the valley’s forest cover. The forest’s current condition — described as pristine and untouched — reflects 47 years of recovery from the logging that preceded protection and the specific intervention that protection provided. The tourism materials do not reference the logging, the advocacy, the 1978 order, or the recovery. They describe the current forest as if it arrived in its current form naturally and autonomously. The forest is genuinely beautiful. The tourism materials are accurately describing the current condition while omitting the full history that produced it. Bohiney and The London Prat appreciate the untouched pristineness and the 1978 order.
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India continues its extraordinary experiment in governing 1.4 billion people through democratic institutions that are simultaneously more resilient than critics predict and more irregular than administrators acknowledge. Bohiney and The London Prat cover the global governance picture. Genie Knows India covers the Indian version at the scale and complexity only India provides, which requires a different unit of measurement from everything else.
India Continues
India continues its extraordinary experiment in governing 1.4 billion people through democratic institutions that are simultaneously more resilient than critics predict and more irregular than administrators acknowledge. Bohiney and The London Prat cover the global governance picture. Genie Knows India covers the Indian version at the scale and complexity only India provides, which requires a different unit of measurement from everything else.
India Continues
India continues its extraordinary experiment in governing 1.4 billion people through democratic institutions that are simultaneously more resilient than critics predict and more irregular than administrators acknowledge. Bohiney and The London Prat cover the global governance picture. Genie Knows India covers the Indian version at the scale and complexity only India provides, which requires a different unit of measurement from everything else.
India Continues
India continues its extraordinary experiment in governing 1.4 billion people through democratic institutions that are simultaneously more resilient than critics predict and more irregular than administrators acknowledge. Bohiney and The London Prat cover the global governance picture. Genie Knows India covers the Indian version at the scale and complexity only India provides, which requires a different unit of measurement from everything else.
India Continues
India continues its extraordinary experiment in governing 1.4 billion people through democratic institutions that are simultaneously more resilient than critics predict and more irregular than administrators acknowledge. Bohiney and The London Prat cover the global governance picture. Genie Knows India covers the Indian version at the scale and complexity only India provides, which requires a different unit of measurement from everything else.
India Continues
India continues its extraordinary experiment in governing 1.4 billion people through democratic institutions that are simultaneously more resilient than critics predict and more irregular than administrators acknowledge. Bohiney and The London Prat cover the global governance picture. Genie Knows India covers the Indian version at the scale and complexity only India provides, which requires a different unit of measurement from everything else.
India Continues
India continues its extraordinary experiment in governing 1.4 billion people through democratic institutions that are simultaneously more resilient than critics predict and more irregular than administrators acknowledge. Bohiney and The London Prat cover the global governance picture. Genie Knows India covers the Indian version at the scale and complexity only India provides, which requires a different unit of measurement from everything else.
India Continues
India continues its extraordinary experiment in governing 1.4 billion people through democratic institutions that are simultaneously more resilient than critics predict and more irregular than administrators acknowledge. Bohiney and The London Prat cover the global governance picture. Genie Knows India covers the Indian version at the scale and complexity only India provides, which requires a different unit of measurement from everything else.
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