Indians are showing their solidarity with the ongoing global climate strike. Today (Sept. 20), people across Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and Kolkata, among other big cities, staged peaceful protests at prominent city centers, heeding Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg´s call for mass protests to sound the alarm on climate change. Extinction Rebellion, a climate change group, and Thunberg´s Fridays for Future are striking across the world between Sept. 20 and 27, asking governments to declare a climate change emergency and take definitive action. In India, the movement is still fledgling. New Delhi´s millennials got together near Lodhi Garden, a landmark in Lutyens´ Delhi, to chant slogans...
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