Kerala Woman Cuts Hair in Protest to Save the Forest

Meena Menon, while cutting her hair, said is dedicating it to the CM and Electricity Minister MM Moni.

When the sound of a tree branch getting cut got louder, Meena Menon cut a strand of her hair, standing in front of a small crowd at her Santhivanam, a green campus of sacred groves, spread over two acres in Ernakulam’s North Paravur taluk.

She had been fighting with the Kerala State Electricity Board that’s wanted to cut trees off her land to run its proposed 110 KV electricity supply line. On Wednesday, 19 June, when men came to cut off branches of eight trees from the mini forest, where KSEB towers are fixed, Meena protested by cutting her hair at the same time.

She said to the small crowd that gathered there,