The Odyssey of Hill Woman

            For ages, her life has been, 
            A  story of perpetual strife, 
            Forever gone unnoticed,
            Generation after generation. 

            Beautiful  but tough as Nature, 
            In whose lap she's brought up,
           She enters mature womanhood, 
            Rather early in life, very often.  

             Imbibing the spirit of hills, 
             She grows up as a child of Nature,

             Learning  many a life lesson, 
             To follow in this tough region. 
              

               A unique blend of  simple virtues, 
               Diligence, patience and fortitude,
               She braves the odds that hit  her, 

                 With a soldierly attitude.
                

                Living in the heart of nature, 
                She herself  becomes its part,
                Trees and streams and rivers,
                 All seem like close relatives.  

                   Long before others could know

                  She had come to  understand,
                  Forests to be the lifelines of  hills,

                 And part of our own existence. 

  
                   It was she who waged a war,

                   Against the felling of trees

                   By clinging to them in earnest,

                   In an incredible protest.

                   The simple hill woman's concern,

                   Is now a global  campaign,

                   With widespread awareness,

                   About protection of natural assets.

                        

                 

                     

               

                

               
             


                
      INSPIRATION---------
LIFE AND WORK OF GAURA DEVI , RENOWNED WORLD OVER FOR THE FAMOUS ''CHIPKO MOVEMENT ''