Bandyopadhyay, Jayanta creator text xu| 1999 continuing ng p.880-82 On the 25th anniversary of the Chipko movement, this is a tribute to the courageous activists and men and women of determination who brought Chipko from a possible instrument of struggle to a trend-setting achievement. Also an examination of media created `messages' to dispel some of the myths about the movement, in particular, the question was Chipko about economics or deep ecology and was it feminist. - Reproduced Chipko movement Forests Economic and Political Weekly 180718