Deccan Herald, August 31, 2004
Mr Vipin Chandra Tripathi, a prominent activist of the Uttarakhand statehood movement of 1990s, died on Monday at his hometown Dwarahaat in Uttaranchal at the age of 56.
A first-time sitting MLA from Dwarahaat in Almora district, Mr Tripathi experienced acute chest pain in the morning. Soon he was taken to a [...]

KHATIMA (UTTARANCHAL), AUG 26 (PTI): At least six persons were missing in flash floods in Kailashu and other rivers in Uttaranchal today even as 36 people who were feared to have been washed away escaped by clinging to trees.
Kumaon Inspector General Vijay Raghav pant said 36 people, mostly labourers, who were earlier missing, were found [...]

People’s Democracy, August 22, 2004
A WAVE of spontaneous actions, bandhs, rasta roko, chakka jam followed the death of Baba Mohan Uttarakhandi while in the custody of the government, he had been picked up from Beni-Tal Udiyar where the legendary Baba had gone on a fast unto death demanding from the government a settlement of issues [...]

Shekhar Pathak has aptly been named `Encyclopaedia of the Himalaya’, so staggering is his knowledge of his region.
By Ramachandra Guha
The Hindu
Sunday, Aug 15, 2004
ON this, the 57th anniversary of Indian independence, I wish to write about the Indian of my acquaintance who best combines past with present. He is in his early fifties, his [...]

Central Chronicle, August 13, 2004
DEHRA DUN: The Uttarakhand Sanyukt Sangharsh Morcha has decided to gherao the Uttaranchal Vidhan Sabha on Thursday to press its demand for establishment of the State’s permanent Capital at Gairsen in Chamoli district. The Uttarakhand Kranti Dal along with the Communist Party of India and Communist Party of India (Marxist) also [...]

Photos and text by Rajiv Nayan Bahuguna and Harsh Dobhal
In the midst of collapsed houses, corrugated surfaces, tangled wires and heaps of mud, loudspeakers from a dilapidated mosque blare out afternoon azaan. And as we enter the mosque, we meet 5-6 Muslim youth, all fruit vendors none of them a qualified maulvi, but all performing [...]

General Release from the Uttarakhand Patrakar Parishad
August 11, 2004
To The Chief Minister
Uttarakhand Government
Interim capital Dehradun
Uttarakhand
Subject: Tragic martyrdom of Baba Mohan Uttarakhandi and our just demands.
Sir,
With deepest of the shock and grief we, on behalf of the Uttarakhand Patrakar Parishad (UKKP), regret the martyrdom of illustrious activist Baba Mohan Uttarakhandi.
In this regard, we bring it to [...]

Swati Vashishtha, Tribune News Service, Dehradun, August 10
The death of Baba Uttarakhandi on the 39the day of his fast has caused the issue of shifting the capital from Dehradun to Gairsain to resurface in the state. The opposition joined hands to make the statewide bandh over the issue effective today. With public outcry over the [...]

DEHRA DUN, AUG 10 (PTI): Normal life was paralysed in several parts of Uttaranchal today as a spontaneous bandh was observed following the death of social activist Baba Mohan Uttarakhandi, who passed away yesterday after observing a record 37-day fast.
Meanwhile, the mortal remains of Uttarakhandi were consigned to flames on the banks of Nayar river [...]

White elephant
By Our Staff Correspondent, The Hindu, 10 August 2004
DEHRA DUN, AUG. 9. Uttaranchal boasts of being a hi-tech State and spends crores of rupees on disaster management and mitigation works. A good portion of this fund has gone into purchasing video conferencing equipment or training trips abroad by top bureaucrats.
It purchased a helicopter worth [...]