The poet activist ............... played an important role in the silent valley protest and her poem "Marathinu Stuthi" (Ode to a Tree) became a symbol for the protest from the intellectual community and was the opening song/prayer of most of the "save the Silent Valley" campaign meetings.

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• Save Silent Valley was a social movement aimed at the protection of Silent valley, an evergreen tropical forest in the ............ district of Kerala, India.
• The Silent valley was declared as Silent Valley National Park in .............
• In 1977 the............... carried out an Ecological Impact study of the Silent Valley area and proposed that the area be declared a Biosphere Reserve.
• .............., eminent ornithologist of the Bombay Natural History Society, visited the Silent Valley and appealed for cancellation of the Hydroelectric Project.
• The ................. is a major river that flows 15 km southwest from Silent Valley.
• On September 1, .............. Silent Valley National Park was designated as the core area of the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve.
• The Appiko movement, started on September 8, 1983 by fiery activist .............. who was inspired by Sunderlal Bahugana’s Chipko movement in U.P.
• One of Indira Gandhi’s first acts on 26th June 1975 was to remove her mild-mannered and democratically inclined Information minister ................ and replace him with Vidya Charan Shukla, who she thought would better serve her Goebbelsian design.”
• The death of ..................enraged the people, sparking a massive revolt amongst the Telengana peasantry, with people from neighbouring villages marching, holding meetings in front of the landlords’ house, and declaring: “Sangham is organised here. No more vetti, no more illegal exactions, no evictions”.
• In October .........., the Dasholi Gram Swarajya Sangh workers held a demonstration in Gopeshwar to protest against the policies of the Forest Department.