Tag: Activism
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Wembley based Vivek Gaurav’s pragmatic environmental activism
29 year old Vivek (instagram: @theplogman) from Pune, India, now based in North London, is an environmental activism who leads the world’s largest community of ‘ploggers’. The concept started in Sweden in 2016, the word Plogging is made up of the Swedish jogga (jogging) and plocka up (a pick-up). Plogging is form of litter picking where people…
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British Hindu activists condemn grooming and coerced conversions
Hindu activists in the UK have raised concerns about an increase in the grooming of Hindu children. In some cases, children under the age of 16 have been coerced or peer pressured into leaving their Hindu faith. Ravi Chowdhry, a Hindu activist from East London stated, “Growing up as a Bengali Hindu in London, I…