the Saving Chandigarh citizens group held a ‘Hug a Tree' event on the lines of the ‘Chipko' movement at the Rock Garden.

Classical Indian music trickled through Faculty Glade where more than a dozen students, faculty members and Berkeley residents gathered Friday for a midday rally.

Ironically, the very demonstration of people’s attachment to their local ecology was used by centralised decision-makers to alienate them from it.